i know of, for example, russian-americans who have their google in russian

my lemmy is in spanish and my search engine, portuguese

  • pipes
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    6 days ago

    Exactly the same reasons for me. And I even got used to the US and UK keyboard layouts, especially selecting the “dead keys” layout on the OS so I can easily type the specific letters/accents needed for many European languages (the few ones I speak anyway :) ).

    Another advantage of the US layout is that it’s the default on any live / installation media / remote server ecc.