I have not run windoze on my home machine for over 10 years now. My wife, who hardly knows how to cut on a computer, is perfectly comfortable with all the stuff your average user needs to do, which is surf the web, listen to music, send and save pix, email, compose and print letters, bulletins, etc. I cannot think of a use that linux will not do, or does not have a native app for, except quickbooks, and there are workarounds for that.
Your average linux basher blabs about how hard it is, and most of the time knows nothing, frankly.
The great thing is that your average malware is completely ineffective. I still have to worry about scriptware running on browser apps, but even that is easier to fix in a nix box.
I am not a professional geek. I am rather an ex insurance guy who is now doing construction/remodeling/repair and doing a small farming op.
It takes a LITTLE time to get on the curve, but the author is right. Linux is the best os out there.
For the record, pull up the covers on Apple’s OS and what do you find? Bash Unix. It is very good and very elegant, and I don’t deny that. It is also proprietary and expensive.
I made the right decision 10 years ago.
Speaking of wife, my wife and kids all use linux and they don’t even know it. They haven’t complained so far and its been over 10 years. Websites are slowly moving from flash to html5 anyway. Just about everything is done on a web browser including taxes. So, what else is needed? Word processor? Already on the web.