Re:Leave my keyboard alone! (Score 1)

I switched to Dvorak 10 years ago and haven't looked back. I switched primarily to ease the discomfort on my wrists rather than the purported typing speed increase. It is much less stress on my wrists even with all the special characters I am constantly typing as a programmer. I used to wear wrist guards to help keep my wrists at a flat angle and take some of the stress off typing and after switching my need for the wrist guards dropped off gradually until I didn't need them at all. I haven't seen any studies done on reduction in carpal tunnel or RSI but I can say that for me it definitely helped.

As an aside, learning Dvorak was much harder back in the Windows 95/NT era where there was very little software support and it was all too common for one of the computers I used regularly not to support it. Nowadays all the OS's have support, even iOS (though only for external keyboards). However the thing that drives me insane is Windows. All the other OS's have a global keyboard setting. Windows is a PER-APPLICATION setting, and it has it done it this way since Windowns 95. If a user comes along that wants to switch the keyboard layout, they have to do that for every application they use. What sense does that make? What idiot designed this?