[ejr]

It's an extremely difficult thing to do from a design and engineering perspective. The majority of office suites available are good, but different and "quirky" enough that the flow isn't seamless. The same goes for design applications and many other utilities that people use every day.

At the end of the day, any OS that requires some command-line at any point has failed to appeal to the mass market. Instead of Windows, Linux would be better off mimicking Mac as it tries to be as unobtrusive as possible while still leaving the command-line power intact.

Linux needs to escape the Uncanny Valley of general purpose computing to become more mainstream.