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I've wanted to learn Dvorak for years but the article hit on it: I'm not and never will be native to it since I already know QWERTY, so won't ever net the sweetest efficiency gains.
French, I've tried bépo because AZERTY (the French standard since forever) seriously sucks. AZERTY is missing lots of diacritics and corresponding capital letters (including very common ones), lots of opening and closing characters are inexplicably separated, ... And the same bullshit as QWERTY, no thought behind where alphabetical characters should be beyond 19th century's "the mechanical arms of my typewriter should not cross too much".
However I couldn't commit to bépo and gave up. AZERTY is too ingrained in my mind at this point.
Really, you'll get proficient in no time. The trick is to go all in with touch typing, no hint and peck!
When I was in my late 20s I spent one low-activity work week transitioning to Dvorak. I have used it for 20+ years now (although it's a bitch to get working on subpar OS'es).
You can maintain both skills, but I chose to let my qwerty skills fade - now I only use it on mobile (because, I loathe typing on glass and so swipe whenever I can - and swiping is hilariously useless with Dvorak because it's so well laid out).
I use dvorak on touchscreen because you get way more chains of left and right thumb alternating.
Nah, I used QWERTY till I was like 28 then learned Colemak-dh on an ergo split keyboard, only took a month to get to normal and now I can type with both. It's like becoming multilingual but WAAAAAAY easier.
20 yrs ago (fuck, I guess it was), I got to 40wpm on Dvorak and 60wpm on colemak. But it was such a a pain in the ass for everything else that I gave up.
Still regret it.
Hey I have extra keyboards and time now...
plus as a lefty, fuck you right handed jerks.