Yeah it’s a pretty painful task to learn a new layout. I’ve done it 3 times, going from QWERTY -> Dvorak -> BEAKL15 -> Graphite, it’s been a pretty awful experience each time. Especially the latest one, as I actually have a job now where I type a lot. There was a period of about a month where I slowly forgot my old layout and needed to build speed with my new one pretty quickly.
But, if you ever are looking to switch, I can definitely recommend Graphite as keyboard layout for developers. I personally swapped X and J to make it more dutch-friendly, but other than that it’s been excellent for comfort.
Dvorak is kinda trash as an alternative layout anyway, there are way better modern layouts that are excellent for comfort
Just gimme what I know. The kids can hit those newer layouts.
My brain isn’t up to the task of learning a new finger language.
Edit:
And just for fun. Did anyone else type their thoughts when they first began mastering typing?
I-t (space) d-r-o-v-e (space) m-e (space) i-n-s-a-n-e (space) f-o-r (space) a (space) l-o-n-g (space) t-i-m-e.
I can type super fast because of it though. I be out here on leaderboards haha.
Yeah it’s a pretty painful task to learn a new layout. I’ve done it 3 times, going from QWERTY -> Dvorak -> BEAKL15 -> Graphite, it’s been a pretty awful experience each time. Especially the latest one, as I actually have a job now where I type a lot. There was a period of about a month where I slowly forgot my old layout and needed to build speed with my new one pretty quickly.
But, if you ever are looking to switch, I can definitely recommend Graphite as keyboard layout for developers. I personally swapped X and J to make it more dutch-friendly, but other than that it’s been excellent for comfort.