It's the myth of the novice Linux user. This magical creature is both sophisticated enough and has the desire to install a new OS on his machine (perhaps even i

It's the myth of the novice Linux user. This magical creature is both sophisticated enough and has the desire to install a new OS on his machine (perhaps even in a dual-boot configuration!) and learn to use a completely different computing environment, yet needs to be coddled with an unconfigurable, brain-dead GUI. There's also the other myth about how you can have the same interface on a desktop and on a tablet, but that's so crazy that most people who believe it are locked up in institutions. It's great if more people want to use Linux, of course. But it would be better if in so doing they came to have an appreciation for their device as one of the most powerful tools ever conceived by the mind of man, rather than another way to upload photos to Facebook and look at cat videos on Youtube. Those use cases are more than covered. At any rate, Linux Mint is switching to Gnome 3 next release, although with some extensions to remove the suck apparently. So beware.