I am going to start to touch type and I want to start on the "right" layout. However, a major concern of mine is that I might have to use other computers from time to time. To elaborate:
There are many many layouts alternative to qwerty to choose from. And AFAIK, only Dworak has made it as a standard (yet) and hence, choosable out of the box on many systems.
However there are many other layouts that are claimed to be better than Dworak. For that reason, I am tempted to pick one of them to learn to touch type on. However, these layouts are not made into a standard yet and hence, they cannot be found on many systems out-of-the-box.
Now the question is the following: If I make a configuration file for the (non-standard) keyboard layout that I will choose to use, would that be applicable to any system that I might encounter? For example: If I make configuration files for Linux, Windows and OS X for the keyboard layout that I will use, would that be applicable to any computer that I will be using or would there still be problems?