My point was pretty much the same as lalop's. There's a lot more to efficiency in keyboard and computer usage than just text input. For me it's a hobby, so I love trying out these sorts of things, but you can't really expect everyone to so readily change to something like this as if it's the only relevant issue (text input efficiency) to someone who has learned Colemak. I hardly see the point in arguing about it.

As for myself, I very much appreciate the contribution and have started implementing the list of words you posted. It will probably take me a few weeks to adapt well and be able to give my thoughts, so I'll shut up until I've tested it more thoroughly.

Regarding the discussion here on Linux, I must say I'm tempted to try it out again. 
By the way when I say that "I have tried Linux" I mean I've tried a number of distros in the past and wasn't convinced to switch by any of them.
Some I ran off a Live CD and others were installed to HDD.

DamnSmallLinux, Ubuntu, Xandros, and Sabayon are the ones I tried that I remember.

I used to be a fanatic for "lightweight" software. Every program I used, I would try to find the least resource consuming one. uTorrent for torrents, NOD 32 for virus protection, and so on. I'd obsessive compulsively check CPU usage on Task Manager. Back then (around 2006) it made more sense with limited RAM. That quest lead me to DamnSmallLinux which was a 50mb or so image file for a stripped down Linux. I can't remember much about it as this was in my younger days, except that for some reason it only ran as a Live CD and I couldn't install it. Apparently useless if I wanted to save anything. I thought it was at least very cool as a live CD that I could just pop into any computer I used.

Later I heard of Ubuntu, the most popular one at the time. Not sure if it still is. Supposedly it  was the most stable one and "just worked" - except it didn't. I couldn't install drivers for my wifi adapter. I also felt confused doings things from terminal. Instructions I found on the web were unclear and always seemed to assume previous knowledge/experience of the terminal.

I then wanted to try a Linux distro that was the most feature rich and graphically beautiful. That lead me to Sabayon, which I needed the full 4.7GB of a DVD to burn (DVDs were expensive back then, mind). I can't remember much except that it took ages to load and when it did load it was slow or had one problem or other.

Most recently I had the Asus Eee PC 901 netbook (which has a super tiny keyboard - I could type barely moving my hands) which I absolutely loved. It came in two models, Linux with a 20GB SSD drive or Windows XP with  12 GB. So I went for the Linux version which came with a custom Xandros Linux distro. This was fast, stable and "lightweight" but incredibly lacking in features. So I eventually overwrote Xandros with Windows XP. Interestingly, the battery lasted longer on Windows.

I currently dual boot 2x Windows 7, one of which I plan to upgrade to Windows 8. If I do try Linux again, I would need to triple boot. I've never tried that before. Features I would want are hassle free installation, a decent text replacement program, a beautiful GUI interface and compatibility with games.

I'm on Ubuntu right now. It looks nicer than I remember it but my laptop's fans are on full blast all the time, it's crazy loud. Very hot air coming from laptop exhaust. I need to turn off the special effects somehow I think. I'm actually scared to carry on using it in case it fries my laptop!

Tried to install Lubuntu (supposedly the lightweight version) which I hope will fix this problem but it won't even download. So far: not impressed.

Update: So I managed to install Lubuntu, which I had to burn to disc because it wouldn't install from Wubi. It's been an absolute nightmare so far. Too many problems to even list. Installing it took ages. Text replacement function didn't work at all - Autokey crashing every minute and even when it didn't crash I couldn't get it to work. Being asked to send error reports all the time because Linux has failed at this or that. Ugly font smoothing in browsers, no idea how to disable. I've managed to do it for the main OS but not the browser. Boot time: No noticeable improvement over Windows. The loud fan noise persists, which might be to do the fact that my laptop (a HP Pavilion DV6) uses a hybrid/dual graphics card set up to save power. So I try to install ATi's Catalyst Centre to set it to the efficient mode. I first look in Lubuntu's package installer thing, it's not there. I go on the internet and download Linux drivers from the ATi site. I end up with some compressed file. No idea how to install it. Very, very frustrating experience overall.