I upvoted this article because I actually hold the opposite opinion. While I wouldn't deny that most people are going to have a better experience on Windows or

I upvoted this article because I actually hold the opposite opinion. While I wouldn't deny that most people are going to have a better experience on Windows or OSX right now, I believe that as the commercial software world becomes increasingly focused on web, tablet, and mobile platforms, room appears for the "open-source desktop" - Linux or otherwise - to experience a renaissance. The open-source ecosystem accomplishes something no company really wants to bother with - maintaining and polishing up old working code. Over a period of a few years that is no advantage, but when you start taking a decades-long view, old solved problems want to stay solved, and open-source increasingly becomes the option that gets you there faster. And the cutting edge has already moved on. Although there are still plenty of high-end tasks that need the kind of deep hardware access you only get on desktops, the web has proven that it can do an increasing breadth of high quality apps - and so have the mobile environments. If you're selling software, you want to be on those platforms if you can, despite all their maturity problems.