• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Idk the 00s? I get the arguments for colemak but Dvorak has a certain elegance to it that’s unsurpassed. I like my vowel row.

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      6 months ago

      Fair enough! My vaguely uninformed impression is that dvorak does a lot of hand alternating which is good for typewriters but not necessarily keyboard typing. Either way I learned Colemak DH mod and I am NOT learning yet another layout that shit took me 3 months

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        6 months ago

        The hand alternating is actually supposed to be for ergonomics and typing rhythm. It’s one of the perks imo. But yeah that’s totally fair. And colemak has its advantages, I hear it’s easier to pick up, and someone like me would probably have benefited from it being less different from QWERTY as I lost my QWERTY abilities. But I too am not spending another 3 months learning a new layout

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          6 months ago

          It’s kinda funny, I use a qwerty layout on my phone without problem, but I have to concentrate really hard to type on a qwerty keyboard layout to avoid dropping back into Dvorak.

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            6 months ago

            Yeah! It’s annoying the hell out of me as I’m troubleshooting what’s going wrong with my home assistant setup. Let me use my superior layout.

            But yeah I think it really comes down to muscle memory. I know what action produces what letter and don’t even have to think to spell it all out. I just think words and can tap them out on my phone or keyboard without looking at the keys.

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      6 months ago

      I just realized that I’ve been using Dvorak for longer than I was using qwerty before that.

      And I wonder if it’s why I don’t have carpel tunnel problems despite pretty much living on my PC. Though I’m also the type to find a comfortable position regardless of my posture, which might help with wrist health. I’m not really sure why my back doesn’t kill me at this point when my posture has been horrible all my life.

      But yeah, I find typing on Dvorak is just comfortable.