LED tail lights definitely have a noticeable effect, and the first word I'd use to describe it is 'strobing'. While driving, looking straight on, I might not notice that a car has LED tail lights vs. regular bulbs, but when I turn my head, the LED tail lights stick out in the sea of red generated by other cars because they seem to flicker very rapidly. It's most definitely not psychosomatic, and certainly reproducible in blind tests. What *causes* the apparent strobing is up for grabs, sure, but the fact that it exists is not.

Having used computers for a little more than two decades, it's given me a bit of perspective.

One. Users generally aren't stupid, but they're often ignorant. There's a big difference between the two, and it would be wise for the average geek to understand this.

Two. The 'usefulness:frustration' ratio for your average human being is very lopsided.

If the competing product is less frustrating than your favored product, no matter how much better your product is on paper, in reality, it's the functional equivalent of having the better gadget that happens to only work while inside steaming pile of excrement.

I see people rail on and on as to how linux is perfect, so the high return rate must just be due to users 'not getting it' or 'being stupid'.

It's a very 'not seeing the forest for the trees' problem.

How smart can you be if you fail to understand why people don't find linux to be a better choice than windows?

Ready for the desktop? HA! Ready for the hobbyist desktop, maybe. The desktop of a standard human being? Not even close.

And 'close' is the functional equivalent 'complete fail' in this situation.