lurkingideas

Removing unused locales

echo en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 >/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
rm -f /var/lib/locales/supported.d/en
locale-gen

Fixing the ugly fonts

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d
ln -s ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/10-hinting-full.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf

Using a customized layout of the US keyboard

Credits to this forum thread.

cp my_awesome_layout /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us
rm -f /var/lib/xkb/*.xkm
rm -f /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache

Reboot and enjoy.