Not ready yet. Sources and Patents. (Score -1)

I think Linux is not ready yet for the mainstream desktop market. Lets face it and be honest here, every OS needs to be tweaked every now and then and people often install all sorts of programs. Unless you're a programmer who is comfortable with frequently tweaking and familiar with the uncommon Bash commands, the process of installing any application is not an easy one. I don't think my less tech savvy brother can install anything on Linux without my help. Allot of applications require building from sources. A second thing is patents, you can't use proprietary codecs for example to play common media files like avi, wma or even mp3 ! Of-course you can download these codecs and install them but that would be patent infringement in the USA and to the courts its the same as copyright infringement so you're better off stealing a copy of windows XP ! just my 2 GBpence