> Linux is fine, but it doesn't just work, and it needs to in order to gain a foothold not just in the developer community but with the general public I unders

> Linux is fine, but it doesn't just work, and it needs to in order to gain a foothold not just in the developer community but with the general public I understand the general public, but the developer community? Why can't the "professional-computer-whisperer" demographic be arsed to setup their computers? In all seriousness: The extent to which you have to manually configure / fix stuff in Linux is seriously overstated, especially w/ the "easy" distributions like Ubuntu and Mint. I've installed both of those on other people's laptops and they've had no complaints at all.