I've certainly gone out of training on qwerty (or rather qwertz), but I was never actively impaired. Though in the last few months I went down the even more extreme route of getting a special keyboard not only an alternative layout. The Kinesis Advantage.
By the way, learning vi is probably the most standard compatible thing to do. Vi is a standard Unix tool, has been around for decades and will be around for decades more. (Not that I use vi much myself.)
> By the way, learning vi is probably the most standard compatible thing to do. Vi is a standard Unix tool, has been around for decades and will be around for decades more.
This feels a little bit like the scene in Superbad, where McLovin proposes to be named Muhammed to blend in, since it's the most common name in the world. It may be the most common OS in the world, but it's none too common 'round these parts. Off the top of my head, I can't even name two computers that have vi installed. The first is my work computer on which I installed gvim for another attempt after reading this very article.
By the way, learning vi is probably the most standard compatible thing to do. Vi is a standard Unix tool, has been around for decades and will be around for decades more. (Not that I use vi much myself.)