1. It’s really not a hard operating system to learn.
2. Linux is a kernel which is used as the very core to build an operating system around.
There were two sentences between lines 1 and 2. Two little sentences separating two absolutely contradictory thoughts.
"It's very simple you see... you just have to actuate the fluxcapicitor with the turboencabulator and presto changeo, internets!
Yet another article by a linux fan explaining exactly why linux should have become more popular and ironically although unintentionally illustrating clearly to those gifted with sight exactly why linux never made it mainstream.
Nah - Sentence Number 1 is a true statement - more accurately, The Linux GUI is not a hard thing to learn.
Sentence number 2 is merely an indicator that the author is a follower of Richard Stallman who got apoplectic about the fact that HIS BABY got renamed, and he didn’t get all the credit.
For the record - from someone who has been using Linux since BEFORE the SLS distribution - Linux is both the Kernel AND the collection of tools on top of it that make it a useable computing environment...it’s not gnu/linux.
As for the original article’s point. Uhm - he forgot that most schools are actually Apple territory! And now-a-days that is Unix too!