As a counter to the notion that "they're really not as technical as they think," I'd argue that the professional user has to pick and choose his battles. Spend

As a counter to the notion that "they're really not as technical as they think," I'd argue that the professional user has to pick and choose his battles. Spending half a day futzing with window manager and X server configurations--whether due to new hardware, an incompatible patch, or something else--really, really hurts when it stands in the way of programming.