I switched to Dovorak maybe more than 15 years ago. But I found it put too much load an the pinky fingers (which already are pretty loaded doing enter, backspa

I switched to Dovorak maybe more than 15 years ago. But I found it put too much load an the pinky fingers (which already are pretty loaded doing enter, backspace, shift). Also typing german is very awkward with Dvorak. I then switched to NEO layout [1] which is optimized for german, programming and english. I never regretted that. For programming, NEO is superb. It gives you 3 different shift keys (each present two times on both halves of the keyboard) thereby allowing a lot of punctuation and other special keys being typed blindly without much moving of the hand. Switching back to occasionally work on a qwerty keyboard was impossible at first. But eventually I got used to that and I can now go forth and back and adjust within minutes. Though qwerty typing speed and accuracy is much lower than my NEO speed and using qwerty generally feels frustrating. [1] https://www.neo-layout.org/ https://www.neo-layout.org/