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Very well written. This depicts some of the problems that most users have to go through. I find when you give them a little pep-talk on what Linux is and how they can become a part of it, they seem to grab on pretty quickly. I got my brother and his girlfriend a computer when they moved into a new place and got internet for the first time (in this day and age). They latched onto Ubuntu pretty quickly and since they didn't care how things worked under Windows they don't care under Linux either. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't know from personal experience that Ubuntu nowadays does all things a non-gaming user could need. They need to know where to start their typical applications and how to do basic things. Firefox is the same, file browsing with Nautilus is intuitive and you can get free software at any time just by setting a checkbox. Updates do themselves and there is no manual maintenance necessary once you've set up correctly. I think in usability Linux has already surpassed Windows in some fields but the configuration is still way to technicky in some places. But we're going there.

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