Re:Aside from the fact that this is a dupe (Score 1)

Linux is great, I switched to it several years ago. But the only reason I've been able to stick with it is the fact that I have a resident Linux guru in the house. I have a lot of extras, tablet, scanner and so on and he's saved me from a lot of hair pulling. I'd love to have everyone switch to Linux and after using Ubuntu I feel like I've finally found the ONE distro that the regular user might be able to use. The problem is though, that without more support for linux (ie linux techs to repair systems or install special software) people will run into a dead ends. Most of the information is out there, but the average consumer won't know where to start looking for it. Virtually everyone knows someone who's a windows guru, so help is never far away. Not so with linux, yet.