While I agree that closed "walled gardens" are a bad idea, the traditional desktop/laptop PC is facing competition, and yason's comment isn't trash. By combini

While I agree that closed "walled gardens" are a bad idea, the traditional desktop/laptop PC is facing competition, and yason's comment isn't trash. By combining both of your comments, I do think the future is clear: the only truly free, general purpose computing machines will run Linux, and will _look_ like an appliance, just because of all the locked down walled in appliances Linux will be competing with. It won't hurt that this will make Linux easier to use. And Gnome 3 is an example of how not to make it easier to use – give the user what they want, do not take it away.