Keyboards (a little off topic maybe...sorry :P)

[lady-of-the-sea.livejournal.com]

Привет!
Finally! I got a Russian keyboard system that works, hooray!
Now, it came with stickers for the keys. It'll be a LOT easier for me to use the phonetic system, but I'm worried that the standard Russian system is something I should learn...
Are there any practical reasons why I should learn the Standard Russian keyboard instead of the phonetic?
спасибо :)

ETA: спасибо, everyone!

Comments

[nbuwe.livejournal.com]

I've been using яверты since very early 90's (native speaker, living in Russia). Don't listen to people who tell you you must learn йцукенг just because it's supposed to be "the one true way". Not unless you plan to use mechanical typewriter a lot, or you want to touch-type russian at a mind-boggling speeds.

With laptops beeing the rule rather than an exception, why would you *care* about how other people configure their keyboards?

The 0.00001% of time that I actually have to use йцукенг, well - I can cope. It's just not worth my time to re-learn йцукенг. (re-learn - as I used to use jcukeng/йцукенг (not qwerty/йцукенг) in mid 80s).

I use the *exact* same layout in emacs on my vt220 which just doesn't do 8-bit input at all (well, I guess nobody here own or even ever saw a vt220, so count that as just me showing off :), X11, Windows and MacOS.

It might be awkward for fast touch-typing, but, hell, it works good enough for me, and I have better ideas of how I can use my time than to relearn བའེམགཔ again. Took me just about an hour to make a clone of emacs phonetic layout for Windows. Surely less than it would take me to go back to йцукенг.