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Nobody learns Dvorak because you'll never get a Dvorak keyboard at work. Not everyone is able to choose their hardware, nor wants to.

eimrine 6y ago
Let me disagree with you, because no Dvorak user is staring keyboard while typing. This layout is for comfortable touchtyping. And the difference is not about different hardware, it is about another paintings on buttons. And you did not answer my main question.
- emteycz 6y ago
  I answer what I know the answer for. No Dvorak user is staring at the keyboard while typing, but every QWERTY user would be staring at that keyboard, and many of them are staring at their QWERTY keyboards just as well, many programmers do too. Paintings on buttons are hardware; and I forgot to say that it's about software too - good luck getting Dvorak set up with typical user permissions. The main point is that people don't even want to, they don't care as much as you do. Not even I care and I agree with you that it's somewhat better. Also not every language works like English does - is Dvorak better for French, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, ...? Are the localized modifications (AZERTY) ready for Dvorak?
  - eimrine 6y ago
    Windows 7 w/o Admin rights allows changing layout, I have checked a minute ago. I do not know about AZERTY and about Chinese/Japanise keyboards, if somebody can answer this question I would appreciate any answers useful for my research in Dvorak. I can answer about Russian language - it has too many vowels for comfortable alterating hands, and it has 33 letters that makes aesthetics of typing this language very different from the one of English. For example, Russian layout has no {}[]<>$^&`~|@# special symbols which makes Russian layout incompatible for creating programming languages. That is why I do not bother learning touchtyping for my mother language, but I know there is some layouts about arranging Russian letters using August Dvorak's ideas. Maybe I should give them a try. What about QWERTY users like you, I have some experience of teaching some ppl to Dvorak touchtyping, and I realized that the older you are the less profit you will gain from switching, and the younger you are the more profit you will gain from _not_ learning QWERTY. If you want to type like hunt-and-peck than there is no difference at all, but for learning to your first touch-typing experience, the difference between the layouts is crucial. You have induced an interesting question for me - is paintings a hardware issue or something else like maybe a believe issue. I appreciate good questions, but firstly I need any hypothetical answers on the question in title.

eimrine 6y ago

Let me disagree with you, because no Dvorak user is staring keyboard while typing. This layout is for comfortable touchtyping. And the difference is not about different hardware, it is about another paintings on buttons. And you did not answer my main question.

emteycz 6y ago
I answer what I know the answer for. No Dvorak user is staring at the keyboard while typing, but every QWERTY user would be staring at that keyboard, and many of them are staring at their QWERTY keyboards just as well, many programmers do too. Paintings on buttons are hardware; and I forgot to say that it's about software too - good luck getting Dvorak set up with typical user permissions. The main point is that people don't even want to, they don't care as much as you do. Not even I care and I agree with you that it's somewhat better. Also not every language works like English does - is Dvorak better for French, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, ...? Are the localized modifications (AZERTY) ready for Dvorak?
- eimrine 6y ago
  Windows 7 w/o Admin rights allows changing layout, I have checked a minute ago. I do not know about AZERTY and about Chinese/Japanise keyboards, if somebody can answer this question I would appreciate any answers useful for my research in Dvorak. I can answer about Russian language - it has too many vowels for comfortable alterating hands, and it has 33 letters that makes aesthetics of typing this language very different from the one of English. For example, Russian layout has no {}[]<>$^&`~|@# special symbols which makes Russian layout incompatible for creating programming languages. That is why I do not bother learning touchtyping for my mother language, but I know there is some layouts about arranging Russian letters using August Dvorak's ideas. Maybe I should give them a try. What about QWERTY users like you, I have some experience of teaching some ppl to Dvorak touchtyping, and I realized that the older you are the less profit you will gain from switching, and the younger you are the more profit you will gain from _not_ learning QWERTY. If you want to type like hunt-and-peck than there is no difference at all, but for learning to your first touch-typing experience, the difference between the layouts is crucial. You have induced an interesting question for me - is paintings a hardware issue or something else like maybe a believe issue. I appreciate good questions, but firstly I need any hypothetical answers on the question in title.