Re: opinions on the Dvorak keyboard layout?

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 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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