RE: opinions on the Dvorak keyboard layout?

["Boland, John" <user=1483@nabble.blu.org>]

 excellent way to combine multiple flame wars! ;>)) 

congrats. 

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf 
Of Dan Ritter 
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:05 PM 
To: Brendan Kidwell 
Cc: BLU 
Subject: Re: opinions on the Dvorak keyboard layout? 

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:21:52PM -0500, Brendan Kidwell wrote: 
> What do BLU members think of the Dvorak keyboard layout itself? I 
> tried it for a few weeks or months in high school (late 90s) but I 
> concluded that it would take me many more months to become proficient 
> at it to the point where I could actually use it faster than QWERTY. 
> And of course, I had to remain bilingual if I wanted to be able to 
> work on anyone else's computer. It seemed like a futile effort, and I 
gave up. 

If you use one or a few computers, and you are interested in maximum 
efficiency, it's probably a good thing. You probably use emacs. 

If you use hundreds of computers, some of which are twenty years old and 
some of which are fresh, on a dozen different operating systems, Dvorak 
is useless to you. You probably use vi. 

-dsr- 

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