Re:Linux needs a standard container (Score 1)

Which studies? Were other wm's such as Icewm, wmaker, ion3, etc included in this research? Personally I believe a lot of people these days use the phrase "intuitive interface" when they really mean "You've seen this sort of thing before". Seems to me if you learned to use windows or mac you can learn to use most interfaces, including the fastest and most reliable one -- the CLI. Isn't the problem really one of wide scale illiteracy? I use Debian myself, and when I started out (with Woody) many of the criticisms aimed at GNU/Linux were true (hard to get sound, hard to get the printer up, etc) and yet I persevered and learned to do it, with documentation and Google my only real support. For those just migrating to Linux it is incredibly easy compared to just two years ago -- Debian Sarge has a real installer, Turboprint will get cups running, Bastille will walk you through the process of securing your system, etc. And if you're an unprivileged user on a system it makes virtually no difference which OS is used -- unless one has sustained organic brain damage since learning Win or Mac one can certainly learn any GNU desktop -- or the CLI for that matter.