That’s been my issue. Is LInux for the masses or just the techies?
It's the secret language of a secret society. If you are a 30-year-old virgin living in your mother's basement and tend to measure your self-worth by your degree of immersion in cultural shibboleths, Linux is exactly what you want.
Now, having fanned the flames of a religious war, and as a IT guy going all the way back to BSD 4.1 on a PDP-11/44, let me make this clear: XP, Vista, OS/2, Mac OS, Unix, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, DOS, CPM, VMS, etc, etc, etc, they all suck! (There, I said it!)
Anyone who spends any significant amount of time defending his favorite operating system seriously needs to reexamine his priorities.
Does Information Technology seem like a strange profession for a Luddite?
Linux requires someone with technical skills to administer it.
Here's the real surprising thing: So does Windows.
Microsoft has said for years that you do not need to be technical to run Windows. There are differing views on whether those statements were wishful thinking, cluelessness or deliberate lies. Regardless of the motiviation, however, it's simply wrong.
Windows requires administration.
If you haven't been administering your Windows box, then someone else is doing it for you.
Hopefully, you pay them to do that. Otherwise it's probably the bot net owner that administers your machine.
To broad a question...
After all if I said ‘is Unix for the masses?’ the first answer would be no way... but then you look at OS-X and its pretty clear some Unix is for the masses and some is not..
Linux is not all that dissimilar, I would not push some of the more tachie driven Linux distributions (like Damn Small Linux) on the masses but Ubuntu is as easy to use as windows..