Its always about the applications. The accountant in our house will not give up her quicken and quilting apps. I use linux on my cloud server. Certain admin tasks are difficult and I have lots of unix experience.
“I use linux on my cloud server. Certain admin tasks are difficult.”
The current Linux Desktop GUI experience is not at all like this. It is not much different than using Windows 7. Most average users will never even need the Comandline Terminal. It is all point and click, Drag and Drop.