The main one is that you might not know the placement of the keys of the US layout by heart so having your printed keyboard match the layout is best. I'm a touch typist, but I still look from time to time to find things like | or ~.
Also, your physical layout might be slightly different, then finding the right key becomes a matter of trial and error for some edge cases (think the inverted L shaped enter key vs the long rectangle version).
The last point has nothing to do with the language really. At least not the shape of the enter key. On Nordic layouts you usually have an extra key left of Z for angle brackets.
There really is no reason to switch between actual physical keyboards to use a different keyboard layout, even if you need to look at the keys(and it would still require you to switch layouts in software). Surely googling a layout cheat sheet is easier than switching keyboards.
> There really is no reason to switch between actual physical keyboards to use a different keyboard layout, even if you need to look at the keys(and it would still require you to switch layouts in software). Surely googling a layout cheat sheet is easier than switching keyboards.
In my case, more than switching, it's that my laptop has a spanish set (work provided), and I went through the trouble of buying an external one with an English layout. It's not like I'm switching between them every few minutes, the Spanish one is left unused. I don't even bother switching layouts, since I can perfectly write Spanish with the English layout (the only missing keys are accents, which I omit in informal texts, and the ñ key that I can get long pressing the n).
I could use the Spanish one and look at a cheat sheet from time to time, but it's inconvenient enough that the 40 extra bucks feel like a good inversion.
The main one is that you might not know the placement of the keys of the US layout by heart so having your printed keyboard match the layout is best. I'm a touch typist, but I still look from time to time to find things like | or ~.
Also, your physical layout might be slightly different, then finding the right key becomes a matter of trial and error for some edge cases (think the inverted L shaped enter key vs the long rectangle version).