My read of the article describes a Linux desktop as a system that can be maintained without opening a terminal window. That entails a lot of GUI and a distribut

My read of the article describes a Linux desktop as a system that can be maintained without opening a terminal window. That entails a lot of GUI and a distribution that works well underneath it. Why exactly is that a good thing? Are all of these GUI users going to start donating to free projects? What is the upside?