[Utilizer]

I have been writing about this for years now. Even here on FR, the Linux Is Unuseable crowd immediately repeats the same old mantra that Windows is vastly superior to Linux for X-number of reasons. Then these same people are loudly complaining when the latest version of Windows gets released -and it is not the same as the version they are currently using!

"The normal Menu button is missing!"

"The new fonts are ugly!"

"What happened to the background image?"

"I liked the old desktop layout better."

"My App/Game/Photo/Vid program no longer works!"

OK, so either stay with your current version of 'doze, add it back on yourself manually, or switch to Linux. And you think that paying over 120 dollars each time you "upgrade" to the next version of widows is actually something you absolutely HAVE to do?

On top of that, people then go out and pay more money for the newest version of MS Office, Photoshop, DVD utilities and burning software, and uncountable AntiVirus programs.

I will repeat that: they willingly PAY for all that.

However, an OS which comes in many, many flavours, is almost infinitely configurable, comes with many applications such as those previously mentioned already installed and if the default apps are not all there or to your liking, they are readily available online, but is not "Windows" but "Linux" -and totally FREE...

This is enough to make people complain that Linux is unuseable?

Words fail.

[AppyPappy]

I’m running Mint on a laptop and even my wife can use it.

[Darth Reardon]

Linux has been unusable (aka “not ready for the desktop”) for at least the last twenty years I’ve been using it on my desktop.

I had to touch windows 2012 recently, and of course I had to reboot. Never had to do a web search to figure out how to reboot a linux box.