Dvorak is optimized for the English language, but my primary language isn't English. Qwerty is universal for languages with the Roman alphabet and I type with more than 120 words per minute, which is enough for me.
I also feel pain every time I end up in front of another computer just for having mapped my Caps Lock to a Ctrl. But that's just one key and having to switch to a completely different keyboard layout is just too painful.
Then there are the smart text editors, like Vim or Emacs, which have shortcuts optimized for Qwerty. Common shortcuts like `C-x C-f` or `C-x C-s` are no longer easy to type. So for each of those editors under your tool-belt, you have to reconfigure them. Yay, that's just what I want.
Basically Qwerty wins because it is ubiquitous and because the alternatives aren't good enough.
I also feel pain every time I end up in front of another computer just for having mapped my Caps Lock to a Ctrl. But that's just one key and having to switch to a completely different keyboard layout is just too painful.
Then there are the smart text editors, like Vim or Emacs, which have shortcuts optimized for Qwerty. Common shortcuts like `C-x C-f` or `C-x C-s` are no longer easy to type. So for each of those editors under your tool-belt, you have to reconfigure them. Yay, that's just what I want.
Basically Qwerty wins because it is ubiquitous and because the alternatives aren't good enough.