Re:Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014)...
by Symbiote on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:18AM
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These characters/keys are in better positions on Dvorak: '" ,< .> -_ +=
These are in worse positions: [{ ]} ;: /?
And this doesn't move: \| `~ and the punctuation over the numbers.
[]{} is significantly worse, equally -_=+ is significantly better, as these keys are swapped. Making an effort to learn and touch-type these keys is pretty similar on either layout.
It's just a matter of learning it. If you really want to, you can customize a keyboard layout on any OS and arrange these keys how you see fit, but then you lose any compatibility advantage of sticking with plain Dvorak.
These are in worse positions: [{ ]} ;: /?
And this doesn't move: \| `~ and the punctuation over the numbers.
[]{} is significantly worse, equally -_=+ is significantly better, as these keys are swapped. Making an effort to learn and touch-type these keys is pretty similar on either layout.
It's just a matter of learning it. If you really want to, you can customize a keyboard layout on any OS and arrange these keys how you see fit, but then you lose any compatibility advantage of sticking with plain Dvorak.