This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any application of lame "Fixed that for you" jokes will be "hilarious".
Fixed that for you
Because they are good at performing repetitive motions with their fingers
Damn! You just reminded me of two things i can put on my resume.
I wanna know where you work.
it's a shame so many people are turned off Linux because their work requires exactly this or that application.
No, most people are turned off Linux because they see it to be complicated. Most people have never installed an operating system before, much less one that has so many differences. Improvements, yes, but most people don't see it that way.
In fact, many people I bring up Linux to don't even understand what an operating system, or in many cases even what Windows is. Yes these people aren't computer experts, but they make up the majority of all computer users. They just don't understand or care what the difference is.
Yes Linux is better. Yes it isn't as hard to use as people make it out to be, but its still too complex to set up for Joe user (seeing as even Windows is too complex to set up for the majority of these users). Until it starts shipping preinstalled on more computers than the handful it does now, this will not change.
As per wine, wine has made leaps and bounds recently for usability, but again, setting up the vast majority of programs in wine still requires some special tweaking, and again most users are either too technologically incompetent or lazy to bother when they have something that they can just slap in a cd and it works because its a native operating system.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith