The Linux desktop is way past Windows and OS X these days in user friendliness focus. GNOME and KDE are so user friendly that they don't work for me as a develo

The Linux desktop is way past Windows and OS X these days in user friendliness focus. GNOME and KDE are so user friendly that they don't work for me as a development environment. I run either FVWM or XMonad depdending on the machine at hand. Also, have you ever compared application management on OSX and Windows to Linux? Linux packages just work, are very very fast to install/update/remove compared to Windows installers and updating a linux distro is very quick in comparison. Some Linux distro installers even upgrade the distro during install, so you get an up-to-date install on first boot. Try achieving that with OS X or Windows. More, Debians, Fedora's and OpenSuSE's installers are super powerful while having a quick next-next-next mode. It's true that some users are better served with a tablet these days, but those who actually use PCs for productivity feel at home on Linux. Hey, printers just work without trying to find a driver download online that has no virus and afterwards runs a couple Windows services just so ink levels can be reported and HP can show you ads about new products. Plus, Linux doesn't spend insane amounts of time in some hardware registry every time you plug a USB device in another port of the computer. But, the Windows kernel is generally great, just not all the stuff on top. Same can be said for Linux, but at least there you can choose your userspace more freely. Please, just go to Windows appwiz.cpl and try removing an application that uses Windows Installer. It'll take ages before actually deleting files and some afterwards. Same during install. There are just a few Windows setup engines like NSIS that avoid this. And, why does Microsoft think it's a good idea to bulk build .Net Frameworks on each and every security update on each and every machine, regardless of performance? Surely, Microsoft's compiler does not have more than 10 or 20 variations of compiler backend switches, meaning they could provide .Net assemblies that have been compiled in Redmond already. To end this, I cannot believe anyone would believe the desktop has no place anymore. Where do would work get done? Software development, media production, gaming, engineering, to name just a few cases. It's both consumer and prosumer, but yes, average Joe can do 99% of tasks with a tablet.