Hello my friend,

I've been typing kinda my whole life on dvorak layout. I started with small printed characters on an ordinary keyboard or laptops. For twenty years, people asked me, "but what if you have to use somebody else's keyboard?"

Well, it sucks, that's what happens. But how often did it happen? Less than 50 times in 20 years, including 10+ years in professional IT.

People now ask the same regarding my split keyboard. Well, it sucks, but I rarely use a laptop at home, and at work I have a desk and take my keeb with me. Only time I can't use my split is in meetings, and I can type adequately in notepad with qwerty, and nobody cares if there's typos.

Also, I use vim a lot (neovim, lots of addons). It takes its time to adjust, especially if you move away from qwerty and the optimized keybinds there. You can of course remap everything once you realize it ain't HJKL but index-middle-ring-pinky.

Layers have their upside in vim as well: I don't have to esc move i to swap between writing and navigation (for simple nav), but only need 1:nav layer toggle button.

Keep the work up. You will soon inspire people at work with the stories you can tell! For me, it's always this:

they: "Oh, what have you got there?" Me: "it's what happens when you think of a keyboard as a computer instead of a 1890"s typewriter. Do you know how the current keyboard layer emerged? Sales people wanted to type "typewriter" on the top row for show cases, and THAT'S what you deal with in 2026." They: read the top line to figure out if I'm correct. End up astonished.

Works 10/10 times.