[CS-FSLUG] Dvorak Keyboards

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz [mailto:Christiansource-
> bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Chris Brault
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:46 PM
> To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Dvorak Keyboards
> 
> Interesting article,
> 
> >
> http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=356
> >
> > The myth of intentional inefficiency ranks up there
> > with the Craig Shergold story for being itself
> silly.
> 
> I wonder if the Dvorak design is better easier the
> wrists and hands in terms of carpal tunnel and
> repetitive stress injuries.

To be honest, I have a hard time believing that it has any significant
difference. The more I use it, the more I'm starting to think the
speculation that this comes from has more to do with muscles getting
used to one or the other, not the strain on the carpal tunnel nerves or
whatever that is.

I could understand why someone who has RMS from QWERTY typing might see
some improvements by switching to DVORAK because the repeated motion
would change somewhat, but to a whole lot.

All that said, I'm not a specialist in repetitive motion injury so I
don't really know what I'm talking about.

JSR/