[freedomben]

I don't disagree, but I do think it's a lot closer than most people realize. Really it's mostly GPU drivers that still cause problems (even on "supported" hardware). I've put Fedora on many family members machines and it usually takes them a day or two to re-orient to Gnome, but after that it's been very smooth sailing.

Where this is targeting older computers, I think graphics drivers are less likely to be a problem (except for some "legacy" nvidia cards in a number of desktops, which I'm still pissed about).

That said, I would agree that for people with no support and linux knowledge, it's probably not a great move, mainly because you need someone to explain that you can't just download exe files anymore and run them, and most of the downloading websites will serve you an exe by default which can be very confusing. I think a two to four hour class would help immensely, but to your point that is a form of support.