[perfect_rovian_storm]

A compatibility test? You mean booting from the CD into the OS to see if it works? Anyone would do that. It takes a couple of minutes and the instructions tell you to do it. Unless you mean doing it a few years ago before such things were around on every distro. I like a challenge too, but wasting my time is another story. Nobody likes that. Remember, a year is like a decade in Linux development. If you don't stay on top of it, criticisms don't stay valid, because they've often been attended to.

Luckily, I've never had one of those old Realtek wireless cards that have Linux trouble. I did have a Lexmark printer once, but it was such a frustrating piece of garbage that I threw it away before trying to use it with Linux. I haven't looked into whether progress has been made on them.

I’m glad you like the UI of Ubuntu but the average user does not and will not but again you and I are not the average user.

I'm glad we have you here to speak on behalf of all of those 'average users'. I wonder which one they will like least. Gnome? KDE? Xfce? You're right about one thing: you're not one of them. Average users would have followed the instructions.

[ATLDiver]

So I take it, you’ve never worked at as a Tech-support person have you? If you haven’t then you have no clue as to how the average user interacts with his/her computer.

Well, that didn’t take long for this to get personal. Glad you have me all figured out, guess I have to defer to your great knowledge on the subject; likely all subjects I suspect. Time to check out of this ‘discussion’ at this point. Good day sir….