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Your idea was "stolen" nearly 2 years ago mate.

Linux is mainstream... Android is based on Linux, the Big Blue supports Linux on its big iron, most web servers in existence run Linux. Because of this, removing the command-line stuff will almost always be counter-productive. One of Linux many strengths (and perceived weaknesses) comes from its command-line.

GNU/Linux will always be associated with sandal-wearing neckbeards, and nothing will ever change that. You should be glad that the majority of the internet, the majority of smartphones, and the majority of academia use Linux on a day-to-day basis. Their will never be a "Year of the Linux Desktop", but the "Year of the Linux Smartphone", "Year of the Linux Server" and "Year of the Linux Mainframe" have all been and gone.

Linux was beaten as the first by a long shot. Haiku has had this for 1 3/4 years.

People were probably saying the same thing half a century ago when barcodes were introduced

That's why if you want to do any serious terrorist plotting or organised crime, you do what the KGB has started doing, and that is going back to pen and paper (and typewriters). If it's not electronic, it can't be easily tapped or hacked.

At $3500 a pop, I expect it's the NSA (or another 3-4 letter agency) who've bought most of these phones.

At $3500 a pop, i'm sure the NSA is likely the one's who've bought the majority of the "100,000+" sold.

I'd define certain MS products as crapware, not malware. When they charge you $100 extra with the Ultimate editions of windows for a glitzy interface and a few features you could get for free from other vendors, that's crapware, but the underlying core of Windows (and the win32/RT API) certainly isn't.

Belief is the root of all these problems. Knowledge is the only cure.

Is that some variation of Folding@Home for Linux distro development?

And Microsoft is sooooo much better? You know, the same Microsoft that completely broke 98% of the worlds workflow and took more than a year to say "we fucked up, we're going to fix it soon"?

Windows 8.x when it gets it's start menu back

That's a really unfair analogy. Jar Jar Binks was never that annoying.

April Fools was yesterday.