I made the switch to Ubuntu a bit ago and I know I'm not the "typical user" since I do design/dev work, but I see nothing about the OS that the average person c

I made the switch to Ubuntu a bit ago and I know I'm not the "typical user" since I do design/dev work, but I see nothing about the OS that the average person couldn't pick up on in terms of its operation vs. Windows, and it's even more similar to OS X with regards to how it functions. From my limited experience talking to people who've tried linux, what confuses them the most is the linux file structure, which can look a bit confusing until you come to understand it. The average person probably doesn't need to know a whole lot about that, though. Also, the UI and font rendering aren't quite there yet, but they're getting better all the time. The biggest problem that I see, while I love Ubuntu, getting it to a point where I'm totally happy with it as an OS has taken more work than the average user would be able or willing to implement, i.e. doing things like cleaning up the UI and improving font rendering, and fixing some issues I had with Flash out of the box. I had to ditch Pulseaudio because it performed very poorly with my HD audio off my motherboard. Disabling that and installing/configuring ALSA was a bit of an ordeal that anyone not really comfortable with computers probably wouldn't want to undertake. For me, the attraction to Linux (other than having a more productive work environment) is that I can customize the hell out of it and make it however I want. Most people won't want that flexibility and will want it to "just work" perfectly out of the box. Ubuntu doesn't quite do that yet.