QWERTY vs DVORAK

Originally posted by pradtf
now here's really something to debate!
but don't anyone get too keyed up about it!

in friendship,
prad

Never tried the DVORAK.... cuz it's stupic. 😉

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Never tried the DVORAK.... cuz it's stupic. 😉

phabbles!
look what you got us into!!
here i was hoping that we would have a discussion about two classical musicians - the composer Antonin and the pianist Anton.
instead you have launched us into a debate about keyboard layouts!!

ah well - "So be it!"

i will answer gavin. they still do make dvorak keyboards, but they tend to be expensive.
my son made one for by just rearranging the keys on a regular one and since we use linux, we merely switched to a dvorak mapping. you don't have to physically switch the keys though once you just learn where everything is.

it took me about 2 weeks to feel comfortable with it, but after that i picked up speed and do type faster than the qwerty. it is supposed to be far less strenuous too.

here is one of the sites i visited to convince myself to switch:

http://members.networld.com/dvorak/Dvorak_vs_qwerty_keyboard_tests.htm

there seem to be windoze layout switchers too in 2000 and XP, but i don't know too much about them, but here are a few sites you might want to investigate:

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windows2000/keyboardlayout.aspx
http://www.fentek-ind.com/dvorak.htm

in friendship,
prad