Comment Switch the *OS* not the way you type (Score 1) 624
After sufficiently long, it is likely you will be more concerned about switching the *OS* back and forth than switching the way you type.
I've used Dvorak almost exclusively for the last 12 or so years. Before that, I'd used QWERTY for about 10 or so years.
Dvorak is faster and, somehow, feels tremendously "smoother" as the pace of keystrokes is more regular. If you start, and get used to it, you won't want to go back.
There *is* a price in terms of the cost of switching back-and-forth. In the beginning I could easily switch back. At some point it became very unpleasant and slow to use QWERTY. If I have to use it for a while -- hours to days -- the memory does come back and I become a decent QWERTY typist again, but I am left consciously missing Dvorak. Fortunately it's easy to switch the OS -- even on Windows it no longer requires a reboot.
Seth
I've used Dvorak almost exclusively for the last 12 or so years. Before that, I'd used QWERTY for about 10 or so years.
Dvorak is faster and, somehow, feels tremendously "smoother" as the pace of keystrokes is more regular. If you start, and get used to it, you won't want to go back.
There *is* a price in terms of the cost of switching back-and-forth. In the beginning I could easily switch back. At some point it became very unpleasant and slow to use QWERTY. If I have to use it for a while -- hours to days -- the memory does come back and I become a decent QWERTY typist again, but I am left consciously missing Dvorak. Fortunately it's easy to switch the OS -- even on Windows it no longer requires a reboot.
Seth
