I have Ubuntu and the software manager works fine. I was just responding to the the comment that somehow the command line is easier than Windows's GUI for a reg

I have Ubuntu and the software manager works fine. I was just responding to the the comment that somehow the command line is easier than Windows's GUI for a regular user. Windows 8 and, presumably, future versions of Windows will have the same store format. Regardless, I think your XBMC example highlights the difference. Ask a user to click on "Windows" from the XMBC download page and immediately the familiar installer starts downloading. Do the same for Linux and you're taken to a Wiki page. I doubt many regular users would know what Linux distro/version they're running let alone feel comfortable typing in those lines. For example Ubuntu, which is likely the most popular distro, includes these instructions: "Make sure to have the multiverse repository enabled, see /etc/apt/sources.list, it is needed for libfaad0, otherwise you get xbmc: Depends: xbmc-data (= 2:10.00~svn35648-lucid1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages For more details, see the HOW-TO install XBMC for Linux on Ubuntu, a Step-by-Step Guide page" The guides are more wikis the user has to read. This is where I think the familiarity and standard installer process of Windows outshines the ease of Linux. As for the crapware and such, that's a different issue which, as seen from this post, is a problem with Windows software more than Linux.