[javert]

There's just one problem with your post: you're thinking like a technologist, and not like an end-user.

Well, a lot of people who use and hack on Linux distros aren't targeting the "end-user," they're targeting the technologist. So that mindset is not necessarily a problem.

[PakG1]

If we're going in that direction, then everyone's participating in a different conversation. The original conversation was not whether or not this is a non-problem because end-users have issues. The original conversation was why hasn't Linux been adopted by end-users at the same rate as other OS's, if it's superior in so many ways.