Even so, they usually find Dvorak more comfortable. Dvorak wins this contest hands down. The Dvorak keymap is carefully adapted to the English language. For example, most typing in Dvorak takes place on the home row, so your fingers and hands don't have to move around so much. Nothing is a cure-all.
Most people have trouble typing some letter combinations.
If you program in un-English languages like Unix shell commands. If you must use one of the few really shoddy programs that ignore the system keymap, and you don't want or can't find a hard-wired Dvorak keyboard. These are some complaints I've come across, but I must say I've done quite a bit of programming and computer swapping since I learned Dvorak, and manage to do all right. 3 April 1997 Back to Introducing the Dvorak Keyboard .