No one wants linux. Who wants to use programming language when all you have to do with Windows is click on an icon.
Wow, where do I begin...
Answer: Nevermind. Enjoy Windows, you're free to do so. Isn't freedom to choose great?
(If you can't figure out whether that's a /sarc or not, you're right.)
Did you leave off the "/sarc" tag?
Oh boy...
"No one wants Linux"
Not true. Yes, MS may still have 90% of the PC market. Right or wrong, most people think computer and associate it with Windows. Not to mention that IIRC, computers with Linux preinstalled weren't offered on the market; one had to erase the OS or resize the file system to install Linux.
The bigger issue is that for the most part, no one knows about Linux as a desktop solution. Whether that's based in stereotype or sheer numbers is cause for a lot of debate.
"Who wants to use programming language when all you have to do with Windows is click on an icon."
IMHO, learning Linux wasn't hard at all. I don't know any programming languages save for TI-83 BASIC and a basic knowledge of HTML.
Second, there is a graphical interface that is becoming easier to use--this is especially evident in recent releases of Fedora/RHEL, Suse/SLE 10, Ubuntu, Knoppix, and Mepis (just to name a few).
How easy is it? I have my 12 year old brother on my system, and he's already familiar enough that he uses it quite often--begging me to get off so he can use it.
Linux is pretty open as to what you want to do. IOW, there are flavors that sharply flatten the learning curve to those that pretty much enables a person to build their own operating system.
Not saying that Linux is for everyone everytime--it isn't. But I do believe that if more people have access to try Linux and see that it is indeed a modern OS with modern GUIs, people will see that they do have a choice. I switched a little over a year and a half ago because I was tired of all the problems I had with Windows. I realized I did have a choice.
Not to mention that a good deal of sites are hosted on Linux. Even FR runs on it.
Finally, 99% of the things I can do with Windows I can do with my SLED 10 install just as easily. Most of the time being point and click. For the most part, updating is terrifyingly easy--click the Zen updater right next to the clock, type in root password, and let it run overnight.
Heck, the only reason I maintain a dual-boot and not run Win in a VMware server is that being a college student, I have textbook programs that require a solid Windows install to work flawlessly.