I ran into these issues myself. I've been typing in dvorak at home and qwerty at work for about 20 years now. I was having pain in my fingers typing all day o

I ran into these issues myself. I've been typing in dvorak at home and qwerty at work for about 20 years now. I was having pain in my fingers typing all day on qwerty, and sought out another way of typing hoping it would help. Switching to dvorak + qwerty permanently solved the pain problem for me. I was unaware at the time how difficult it would be. There is no incremental approach to switching keyboard layouts, at least for me. As soon as I started learning dvorak, my performance in qwerty dropped drastically. I'd blank on what key to type or I'd spend more time correcting dvorak keys in qwerty or qwerty keys in dvorak errors than I was actually typing. I was at a severely degraded typing ability on any keyboard layout for a week or two and it was a couple of months before I felt comfortable in either again. It was several months after that before I could easily context switch between them without errors. Occasionally now I'll start typing gibberish and realize that I need to switch my brain over because I'm at work now and need to type in qwerty, but once I've made that context switch I only have normal typos for the layout I'm in instead of the cross-layout problems I used to have. I don't know if I'm just terrible at learning keyboard layouts or if this is something everyone will encounter, but I wouldn't recommend switching over to anyone that doesn't have a good couple of weeks to effectively be at the hunt-and-peck typing level again and a long while until they can expect to type long documents without multiple errors. I don't use a hardware dvorak keyboard, I still use the qwerty layout keyboards with a different keyboard layout in software. This may have been part of the problem I had learning dvorak. I learned to touch type without looking at the keys in high school on IBM Selectric typewriters, so that helped a lot.