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I'm talking about two keyboards, one qwerty (theirs) and one dvorak (mine) both plugged in. Back in the day, it's a (Windows) OS setting per session, so both k
by DrBazza 5y ago
I'm talking about two keyboards, one qwerty (theirs) and one dvorak (mine) both plugged in.
Back in the day, it's a (Windows) OS setting per session, so both keyboards would need to be the same. Is it now USB driven? Does the Mac or Windows support two different layouts simultaneously?
Fiddling around with keyboards isn't something I do (nor running Windows tbh).
- taeric 5y agoThis feels alien to me. Makes some sense, but sharing sessions is pretty niche. Collaboration usually involves networked access, or passing the keyboard.
- DrBazza 5y agoYeah, and the "passing the keyboard" was my original comment as to why I can't personally waste the time to learn a different keyboard layout to QWERTY, or even a split keyboard, when everyone else (99%) use flat rectangular qwerty keyboards. I doubt I have the muscle memory to switch between the two in an office situation, so I may as well just remain one of the 99%. Also, I can touch type, so I don't really see how squeezing out ten or so words per minute using dvorak is going to improve my productivity.
- taeric 5y agoI fully cede that it is marginal benefit at best. I did it really just to see if I could. Same reason I flip left she right hand for mouse.
- Symbiote 5y agoSwitching between keyboard layouts is very easy, and is done every day by millions of bilingual people, especially if they type languages with different scripts (English, Russian, Chinese, Arabic etc). On Windows, pressing Ctrl+Shift (nothing else) flips between the configured layouts. Other systems have similar shortcuts.