The hard part is over. I can effectively type without forcing my fingers to go where they should. I think I’m at about 70% the speed I was with Qwerty. I’m really surprised that I stuck this out.

For a few uninteresting reasons I had the opportunity to install three different OS’s. The interesting part was observing which gave me the opportunity to select Dvorak as my desired layout.

NetBSD 3.0 - Dvorak was not an option. This was painful since I had to manually mount a machine’s share via ’sh’ shell (I’m guessing bash is too heavy for NetBSD’s defaults? It may have had csh, I didn’t think to try.)

Windows Vista RC1 - It asked me right away. Dvorak was on the list. However, the screen after the layout choice is the “enter your license key” screen. Guess what? Yep, the dang layout was still in Qwerty! So close The next time it needed input (after a reboot) it was correctly in Dvorak.

Mac OS X - It asked, offered and honored my choice of the Dvorak layout.

This should be the last post dedicated to my now preferred keyboard layout. My conclusion is: I’m glad I did this, It was fun. Maybe next year I’ll get a chorded keyboard.

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