I've been using Colemak since around mid last year.
My learning experience was about 3 days straight (10-12 hours /day) after that, I could type in Colemak, albeit a bit slowly.
Within 2 months I was back to my normal typing speed.
I'd really like Backspace to be remapped - preferably to nothing. That way, I'll learn to use CAPS as backspace. At present, I only use CAPS if I think about it.
Been good. I couldn't touch type on QWERTY before.
I have used Colemak with Fedora 5, OpenSUSE 10.1, Ubuntu 6.10 and Ubuntu 7.04
I would really like a split grid keyboard - think TypeMatrix split in half. If anyone knows of a soft touch grid keyboard that's programmable (to make setting layout easy), please let me know!
Thanks Shai!
- sand