[oliwarner]

When did you last use Linux? 2003?

Linux [distributions] (because the Linux Kernel is fairly agnostic about use-cases) are constantly being developed and redeveloped. KDE5, Unity8+Mir, GNOME3, Cinnamon, MATE, etc... They're all aiming to be easy to use and powerful. They all have some distance to go but so do Windows and OSX.

Then there's the actual consumer-device market that Linux all but owns. Things like Tizen and Android and the dozens of frontends that the existing infrastructure makes super-simple to create a custom interface.

There is constant churn, making Linux more and more user-friendly.