> [...] and Linux is much more user friendly on the desktop. Actually, I am not sure if Linux is in fact user unfriendly. I mean, my grandpa (78) uses it every

> [...] and Linux is much more user friendly on the desktop. Actually, I am not sure if Linux is in fact user unfriendly. I mean, my grandpa (78) uses it every day since about a year now and hasn't complained once (email, banking, ebay, news, ...; he used vista before). I mean it's not like you don't have to learn a lot of new stuff if you come from years of windows experience and want to reach the same level of proficiency on a new platform which is totally different. It most certainly doesn't feel good to be novice again just because you booted a different system. But I doubt that it is a usability problem with the Linux desktop as people who have no previous experience with windows tend to have an easier start with Linux. My primary PC has Linux installed and my laptop has a dual boot with Linux and Windows 10. When I use Windows I feel often helpless. Some program tells you that you need to install the newest update but while the updater tells you that its updating, you can't see any progress. After waiting for hours without seeing any progress you conclude that something must be wrong. So you reboot a few times and start searching on the web. Eventually you find a page which tells you how you can reset the update cache and after that it takes only a few reboots to complete the update. I definitely prefer updaters which actually work and tell you straight away when something is wrong. My problems are probably just the result of too much Windows absence, but somehow I don't expect that to become a real problem anytime soon.