On Adrian Kingsley-Hughes “Hardware 2.0: Blog on ZDNet he writes a post about “Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer user“. After reading this post I think he has some great insight.

I have family and friends who have experience with using Linux, typically working with it at the desktop level, and working with web-developers (which are Pro-Linux and Anti-Microsoft). Most of those conversations end with the statement that they want “something that just works and to share files with others easily - and are compatible”. I have also heard the Linux users are “geeky” coments.

Adrian hits these 5 points:

  • On the whole, users aren’t all that dissatisfied with Windows
  • Too many Linux Distrobutions
  • People want certainty that hardware and software will work
  • As far as most people are concerned, the command line has gone the way of the dinosaur
  • Linux is still too geeky

Read the blog post yourself. Each of thse items is explained and expanded on.