I would have thought they'd have something quick to deploy their OS images. When we deploy RHEL to our servers it's a standard image with optional packages. We use kickstart + puppet. ~35 min to deploy a server, of which about 5 minutes requires user interaction, which decreases (per host) if we do more than one host... Strange that they need to do extensive testing. RHEL just works...

Which raises the question that given that the target population is not specified: "better than average in which population?" Further, to counter your point, while the implicit population for the sense of direction is everyone, given that sense of direction is not directly linked to being a geek (or is it?), would the question about operating a computer imply the same population. No idea who said it, but it still stands: "Never trust a statistic, unless you falsified it yourself."

Yes