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Posted by Moon
Now, why on Earth would you want to use it, you ask? Well, the regular qwerty systemw as developed for typewriters soon after they came out. People were typing so fast that the keys jammed, and rather than just build a better typewriter, they re-arranged the keys in an inefficient way to reduce typing speed. Hence the qwerty system was born.
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Urban myth. That design flaw was corrected shortly afterwards, so the jamming problem quickly became a non-issue. There was plenty of time to introduce other keyboard layouts before Qwerty became the standard, and in fact there WERE alternate key layouts at the time. None of them were any better than the original.
There is also very little evidence to suggest any significant gains over Qwerty. The amount of effort it takes to relearn how to use a keyboard for Dvorak, the hassle of having to convert software, and having to carry your own special keyboard around because you use your own special typing system far outweighs any nominal efficiency gains.
Dvorak gets paraded around every now and then, but it's really a load of crap. If it were really head and shoulders above Qwerty, it would have superceded the old standard by now. The fact of the matter is, once you know where all the keys are, it really doesn't matter where they are, and it's trouble for the sake of trouble to try and buck the standard.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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