Long time desktop Linux user here. I used Linux on the desktop in the late 90s when the only usable GUI apps were Netscape 4.7, Xemacs and terminal windows and

Long time desktop Linux user here. I used Linux on the desktop in the late 90s when the only usable GUI apps were Netscape 4.7, Xemacs and terminal windows and there were some half-baked Windows95 like window managers. I got a heck of a lot of real work done on that config though. The darkest day for Linux was when Windows 2000 came out. It was a Windows that didn't crash, had good networking and performed pretty well. A lot of people I knew who had been using Linux up to that point switched back. I think with Android and Ubuntu over the last few years there's been a new dawn and Linux has caught back up as a end-user OS. For instance, I needed to scan a document and I was prepared for the hours of fiddling that I thought was probably necessary to get this to work with my Canon scanner/printer/copier. I used Simple Scan, it worked perfectly the first time I used it without reading the manual and with no configuration and it saved to a multi-page PDF. Mind=Blown!