> Having difficulty finding symbols because the keycaps no longer match (I don't know why they don't memorize them after all these years)
That's quite odd. Maybe it's because I'm a programmer, but I had the symbols down just as fast as the letters.
> Not knowing what mode the keyboard is in to type one's password.
There's no reason to have both modes on one's personal machine, and I'm very hesitant to type my password on someone else's. If anything, it actually makes me think more carefully on whether I actually want to do that.
> On Windows, in particular, the settings seem to flicker back and forth between Qwerty and Dvorak between programs, and between invocations of the same program.
Windows keyboard management is a nightmare, but that shouldn't be a reason to avoid the layout. It's a lot smoother on Linux and OS X.
That's quite odd. Maybe it's because I'm a programmer, but I had the symbols down just as fast as the letters.
> Not knowing what mode the keyboard is in to type one's password.
There's no reason to have both modes on one's personal machine, and I'm very hesitant to type my password on someone else's. If anything, it actually makes me think more carefully on whether I actually want to do that.
> On Windows, in particular, the settings seem to flicker back and forth between Qwerty and Dvorak between programs, and between invocations of the same program.
Windows keyboard management is a nightmare, but that shouldn't be a reason to avoid the layout. It's a lot smoother on Linux and OS X.