Slashdot | Mac OS X Gaining Ground In Corporate Environs: "'If the average user could have a fully configured Linux system that 'just worked' placed in front of them I think they would forget Windows and OS X rather quickly.' I think you may be a bit out of touch with the 'average user'. If a Linux system 'just worked' then yeah, maybe they'd choose it over OS X or Windows. But Linux is never going to 'just work' that way. The mere existence of multiple windowing systems means that applications will be targeted at one of them. Sure, if the average user decides he likes Gnome best, he can still use KDE applications, but the little inconsitencies in the interface will start to wear on him. Why is that? Because the inconsistencies lead to things not 'just working'. Users don't want to have to know 3 different ways to paste something based on what toolkit the app is based on. They just want to go to Edit -> Paste (the more savvy ones may know Control+V) and have it work. I'm not saying choice is a bad thing. It's a great thing when you know what you're doing. When you don't know what you're doing, you want the simplest thing that will get the job done. Linux still needs a lot of work to be that thing."