Personally I feel Linux is hard to learn, somewhat like Bryan says, that it
could be made more user friendly but by doing so its robustness, its
security strength, would be lost or at least compromised. I also feel it is
not quite "ready for primetime". Give it a few more years, major computer
manufactures, and the polishing that will have taken place by then, it will
be ready for John Q. Public. John and Jane don't want to whrasel with it,
they just want to use it. Its like a car, the grease monkey always has the
hood up tinkering, our dear old aunt Jane and uncle John just want to drive
it. Basic transportation. Not a hobby.

I'm not new to computers. Back in the late 70's I put together a Heathkit
H89 All-In-One computer. It came with HDOS, Heath DOS. I upgraded it to Gary
Kildall's CP/M. Went all the way through MS-DOS 5 or did we end up with
MS-DOS 6? I'm getting old. The good old command line days. Windows 3.1 was a
strange new beast. But once I got use to it, being able to run several
programs at one time, ALRIGHT! Then there was the learning curve to Windows
95. Yet another strange beast. Now we have Linux knocking on Microsoft and
Windows door. Oh, you can try to stop it, Bill can try to stop it, but don't
put you body against the door, Linux (progress/advancement) will come
through. You may slow it down, put the inevitable off for a while, but it
will come. The only thing that can stop it is if the Man up stairs says,
"Times up".

Yes, Linux still has its ruff corners but thousands of hackers are hard at
work polishing it.

I have a friend at work that has been into computers since the early 70's,
mainframes. He is a old network professional. He knows lots of OSs,
including Unix, so helping me with Linux is childs play to him. I can go to
him with a problem I have been fighting all weekend and like snapping your
finger, I have the answer. That has helped me tremendously.

Yes Brian, Linux is still somewhat tough, could be more user friendly. Some
of those things can be changed but some like, filename and Filename, in
Windows those are the same name, in Linux and Unix they have upper and lower
case are differend. Always have been, always will be...

But I use Windows very little and that if more than I want to. My son don't
even use Windows period. Its Mac or Linux.