[ Thanks to Gene
Alexander for this link. ]
“I often see the sentiment expressed that desktop Linux
is “too hard” for the average PC user. Yet the
qualification for “too hard” is usually that it is too
hard to install Linux or too hard to fix problems on Linux for the
average user. These arguments seem to completely overlook the fact
that an average PC user will never install his own operating
system. Also overlooked is the fact that the average PC user will
never diagnose and fix her own system. An average PC user is taking
a “sick” PC to a local computer repair shop, or to Geek
Squad at Best Buy or calling a geek friend to come fix it. An
average PC user is buying a PC with an operating system
preinstalled and not changing it for something else. Those average
PC users would have zero problems using desktop Linux. I have
proof.”