But isn't the speed advantage gone very soon as soon as you have to type non-english text such as programming languages and specific commands (which are a large

But isn't the speed advantage gone very soon as soon as you have to type non-english text such as programming languages and specific commands (which are a large part of using a computer, you don't only want to type the text, you also want to format it and move it around). Try listening to http://www.linux.fm/ http://www.linux.fm/ for more than three minutes and you'll get my point :)