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I hope Dvorak starts picking up traction.

• nostrademons 18y ago
  Anecdotally, it seems to have gotten a big boost when Microsoft (and Linux!) started including the Dvorak layout in system software and providing an easy way to switch between layouts on a per-program basis. The first time I tried out Dvorak, I had to hack around in ResEdit, make a new keyboard layout, and then glue labels to a keyboard cover. If I weren't 12 years old, I would never have had time to bother. And even then, I gave up after a few days because I had homework due that I needed to type up fast, and couldn't afford to put up with hunt-and-peck. When I tried again in college, everything was all preinstalled, and I just had to change a Keyboard setting. And I could alt-shift to go back to Qwerty, so if something urgent came in - say, I had to respond to an instant message - I could do that and then go back to learning.
• silentbicycle 18y ago
  Computers have been much kinder to alternate keyboard layouts than typewriters. (Another Dvorak user here.)