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Why is Everyone Still Stuck in QWERTY?
theWrkncacnter asks: "I was recently giving some instructions over IRC to a long time QWERTY keyboard user who wanted to switch to the Dvorak layout, mostly because a good majority of the people in channel had made the switch and were all talking it up, myself included, about how our speeds had increased and how its much more comfortable. This made me think, why don't more people use the Dvorak layout? Searching around I found an older topic on the subject, but that didn't answer too many questions, as most people in the comment section seemed to think that Dvorak vs. QWERTY was a hardware issue, when it is really a matter simply changing the layout on your particular OS. I took the time to pry off and remap my powerbook keyboard's keys but I have no problem typing in Dvorak on a physically QWERTY mapped keyboard, and I know many others who don't have a problem doing so either. So given all of this, why don't more people switch? Is it that most people just can't be bothered to make the change, even when its more efficient and more comfortable?" Is it mostly due to the fact that most people learn to type first on QWERTY due to its popularity, and hence don't bother to learn anything else?
Anyone who uses the Dvorak layout is a communist, plain and simple.
I tried to switch... but the letters written in Sharpie ink rubbed off to quickly =(
~foooo
Oh god. This is like a bad Twilight Zone episode.
...to the Twilight Zone.
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Limekiller. Reader of Slashdot and sometimes typist. He thinks he's seen every rant devised by man. He also believes that he has come to grips with the Slashdot editor's penchant for beating the proverbial dead horse. It is with this jaded approach that he will begin his evening routine with a bookmark. A bookmark that leads
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Dear sweet Christ would you let the qwerty debate die! Hath you no shame!?
My
Limekiller
I can't believe this submission beat my "Why did some people prefer Gobots to Transformers?" story.
"Derp de derp."
Because I've never needed a text editor to make my morning coffee, wipe my arse, cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner, mow my lawn, play fetch with the dog, and transform into an evil AI entity that communicates with me via my toaster.
;)
Last I checked people who DO need that sort of thing use emacs right? Those of us who just need our text editor to send plagues, turn cities to salt, and part the red sea stick with vi
My passwords wouldn't be as easy as "asdf" anymore.
C ,rgne dak. yr aip.. ,afw ydco cob-y a yprnn abe cu frg mre ydco ao YPRNN yd.b cy co x.jago. frg ap. bry n337!!!
Bf yd.
Keeping
!! You just found the next big revolution. They say that porn drives all technological improvements and pushes the boudnaries..
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Keyboard layouts designed for one-handed use! Brilliant! You can write code with your [less 'favorite'] hand, while that pr0n video clip in the lower corner of the screen has your other hand
Well, you get the idea.
Damn . . . where the hell did that come from.