I've never managed to make the terminal work for me. But I've been using windows since I was like 5 and I'm really bad at remembering shortcuts besides a handful of ones I use every day.

> When you reach that point, you will be, on average, much more productive than an average GUI user

How sure are you about that? I often watch streams of people using emacs or vim, with totally custom setups and it seems like a wash to me. They look like wizards doing some stuff, and then other things seem slower than my own workflow.