[Bulwark]

KDE and Gnome are absolutely terrible, and beyond that, it's daunting to switch from Windows to anything else.

It's not that KDE is terrible (Gnome is, I'll give you that), it's just that it's not (yet) well laid out. I can do stuff with KDE that's so simple and intuitive that Windows can't even begin to match. For example: I pop in an Audio CD. I browse it. I see a Track Folder, an OGG folder, a WAV folder, and an MP3 folder. If I drag stuff out of the MP3 folder and put it on the local filesystem, it's converted on the fly. I can then just hook up my portable MP3 player and drag it over to that. On Windows I'd need all sorts of "MediaManager" programs which do who knows what.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

My digital camera is the same way. On windows, I need this driver and that software program.

Here I just hook it up and grab the files like a hard drive. Doesn't get any easier than that.