The fear, I feel, is in making Linux follow Windows's user experience, rather than doing its own thing. Meaning, any call for "make it more user-friendly" is he

The fear, I feel, is in making Linux follow Windows's user experience, rather than doing its own thing. Meaning, any call for "make it more user-friendly" is heard like "give me windows". It might make sense to rally behind Ubuntu as a user-friendly distro and push that, only mentioning Linux the way "MacOS X is built on Darwin". Another big problem is packaging for third-party software. Personally I would love to see a system where software isn't distributed as final binaries, but pre-built object files, together with a few very light shim source-files that then get built and linked on my machine, and rebuilt and relinked when the libs they depend on get updated.