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Re:I’ve used Dvorak for 10 years, and it’s not all that by hopler on Sunday February 17, 2019 @04:27PM (#19187026)
Through my 20years of typing and texting with terrible posture and exercise habits, and bouts of debilitating RSI where I immobilized my arm, and experimenting with Dvorak, I found that the main way to reduce my RSI symptoms was to stop hanging out in areas where people talked about RSI.

Even now, just getting into the thread makes my wrists tingle

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Re:I’ve used Dvorak for 10 years, and it’s not all that by skocznymroczny on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:38AM (#19189570)
Yeah, a lot of that seems to be anecdotal evidence. Similar to people claiming mechanical keyboards are better for your wrists, which I find very hard to believe, given how long is the key distance in such keyboards and how much pressure you need to press the keys in such.
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Re:I’ve used Dvorak for 10 years, and it’s not all that by Fnoord on Monday February 18, 2019 @08:11AM (#19190381)
> [...] given how long is the key distance in such keyboards and how much pressure you need to press the keys in such.

This very much depends per switch. For example, Cherry MX Red require far less pressure than Cherry MX Blue. There's also the issue of noise (which is annoying for other people, and allows for a TEMPEST attack).

Optical switches, such as the Wooting (2) require also less travel.

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