Anecdotally, French users use an Azerty setup, which is very similar to Qwerty for most letters, but has more room for all those nice diacritics like é, ù, à, è, ê… Typing French on a qwerty keyboard is really super annoying. However in the scramble for room in the keyboard, many symbols like the full stop, the numbers, and things like |, \, [, { are locked behind the shift or alt keys. It really makes it slower to type in LaTex (and from my experience increase the risks of RSI too, but that’s probably mainly due to my awful desk set-up). Mac’s Azerty set-up is also slightly different from Windows’ and even worse for coding (some recurring symbols are locked behind three keys combinations like the highly ergonomic and intuitive shift-alt-L for |).
The point is I doubt there is a set-up that is optimized for every one, but some set-ups can be really bad for some tasks and if you do happen to be in one of those case the ratio $\frac[benefits \ gained}{cost \ of \ transition}$ may be much better.
Anecdotally, French users use an Azerty setup, which is very similar to Qwerty for most letters, but has more room for all those nice diacritics like é, ù, à, è, ê… Typing French on a qwerty keyboard is really super annoying.
However in the scramble for room in the keyboard, many symbols like the full stop, the numbers, and things like |, \, [, { are locked behind the shift or alt keys. It really makes it slower to type in LaTex (and from my experience increase the risks of RSI too, but that’s probably mainly due to my awful desk set-up).
Mac’s Azerty set-up is also slightly different from Windows’ and even worse for coding (some recurring symbols are locked behind three keys combinations like the highly ergonomic and intuitive shift-alt-L for |).
The point is I doubt there is a set-up that is optimized for every one, but some set-ups can be really bad for some tasks and if you do happen to be in one of those case the ratio $\frac[benefits \ gained}{cost \ of \ transition}$ may be much better.