Comment Sad truth (Score 1) 618
In my opinion, the sad truth is that Linux is not more difficult to use than Windows, but that the difficulty is accepted for Windows because it has market domination (your neighbour can help, and otherwise you buy that book "Windows for dummies", or "100000 tips to make your XP experience more effective", or "EYEWTK about Windows"). Since everybody seems to be able to use Windows, people just try a bit harder themselves.
Users are willing to go through a complete overhaul and relearning phase every time there is a new version of Windows. That is considered to be "worth it". But when these same people try Linux, they expect it to be exactly like what they have experience with, and otherwise it is too difficult.
Heck, even the API changes all the time in Windows. And every time a new version of visual studio comes out, programs break. And programmers accept that. Unix programs written in 1985 still run on Linux without change....
