[softwarecreator]

You are not dumb.  Linux is just not user friendly.  I've said many times on these threads that Linux will never compete with Microsoft until it is as easy to install, configure and handle 3rd party software as easily as MS does.

Linux is fine for people who are very PC savvy, but the average user cannot get it to work as well as Windows.

[Echo Talon]

i would say that im a little more than the "average" computer user. I build my own systems and install my own software, and everything. If i ever have a problem I get online and ask in different forums, where i have found lots of help. Linux to me is just way to foreign, i gave it a shot a respectable shot i thought i gave it a few months and a few different distros, its just WAY harder to learn than windows. I was spending all my time learning and NO time actually doing anything, after a few months i gave up. If people can actually get it woking right more power to them. :)

[goldstategop]

You can try Linspire or Xandros. They both install in 10 minutes and automagically configure and detect your hardware. You can download and install software from a central server in one or two mouse clicks. A KDE desktop is as easy to customize as Windows and you never need to use the command line at all.

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[antiRepublicrat]

USASOC Staff Orientation CourseLinux is fine for people who are very PC savvy, but the average user cannot get it to work as well as Windows.

I've always wanted to do a test. Get three groups of people, each with about the same very low-level of computer ability. Each group has a broadband router (DHCP on) and a free ethernet cable sitting there. Give one group a consumer-level Dell with Windows, another Linux (pick a vendor) and another an Apple iMac.

Then sit back and watch who gets set up first, who gets on the 'net , writes some letters, sends some email, and gets hit with any kind of virus first, and of course who takes a sledge hammer to their new box first (have sledge hammer prepositioned next to the desk).