i am turned off when the criticisms towards windows, whilst valid, typify the out-of-touch-with-reality-ness of many linux fanboys. real world users do not noti

i am turned off when the criticisms towards windows, whilst valid, typify the out-of-touch-with-reality-ness of many linux fanboys. real world users do not notice, much less care about these issues, nor want them fixed, nor would their user experience be significantly improved by addressing them. along similar lines they barely notice that linux exists at all. there are good reasons why linux dominates the backend space, and windows dominates user space. linux caters very well to the power user and is discoverable with a lot of research - the kind power users will do. windows caters acceptably to the casual user and is so well known they needn't bother advertising (but continue to do so anyway...). the one problem that is bigger than anything listed here, imo, is that the linux development community is building something they want rather than what others want and then not selling it to anyone especially well. there have been great strides in this area, but its still not enough. ubuntu is a joy to install and use compared to linuxes of old. (i remember well struggling with 'red hat for dummies' in the 90s). but... its not advertised in the mainstream or known about as an alternative - why its worth using etc. and appears that it might suffer the classic problems for regular users that put them off alternative platforms - things like "doesn't have MS Word which I (think) I need for work (because I've never even heard of OpenOffice or LibreOffice etc. let alone tried such things)" its great to see that Dell offer it as an option these days, at least. but until more people know about it and understand that it won't prevent them from doing what they want, they just aren't going to use it.