With this attitude, Linux will never succeed (Score 1)

As I read the comments posted here, I get the general feeling that you all think the guy is a total moron. If this is the classification that all people who can't install Linux sucessfully(which this guy managed) get, then Linux will never succeed. Most people could care less if Linux is open source, or whether kernel modules can be loaded dynamically, or even about stability. They want the product to work out of the box, and once its installed, they want it to be easy to use. If all you can tell these people is RTFM, then Linux will simply remain an OS for the elite computer users of the world.

Secondly, people can be intelligent, and yet be ignorant in computing at the same time. Installing Linux, and using it successfully, versus using Windows/MacOS, is the same as writing essays in college, versus writing a novel. It is a big step, and the vast majority of the population can't do it. Even though most of you, like me, know how to compile modules that allow for SCSI emulation, you have to be open to that fact that an entire world exists outside of computing, and that there are people that dominate those other parts, like we dominate the world of computing. It is our job to make it simpler for the rest of them. This is the only way Linux will become widespread among the general population.