I'm at peace with the notion that non-technical users aren't interested in and shouldn't have to learn what's under the hood. However, the author of this artic

I'm at peace with the notion that non-technical users aren't interested in and shouldn't have to learn what's under the hood. However, the author of this article is not a non-technical computer user, despite his claim to be one; if you're aware that VLC has "output modules", one of which is "XVideo", by the standards of the masses you're a geek, period. Claiming to be "just a user", and at the same time spouting various kinds of technicalities that "just a user" would have no idea about is actually another symptom of the web forum pseudo-technicalism that has infected "IT website" articles in this vein. *nix is a technological paradigm that allows certain possibilities, the most prominent of which has historically been building "by geeks, for geeks" operating systems. In years of reading through discussions similar to this one, I have yet to see a convincing argument for why it can't possibly be used to build systems for non-geeks to use as well. And along those years, Apple provided very strong argument, if not solid proof, for the opposite, in the form of OSX.