Anyone get a Rasberry Pi yet? Last I checked, the waiting time on one of those was about five months!
/johnny
So often we see the same thing - the guy at the epicenter of greatness - is just a regular, put-one-foot-in-front-of-another guy. Beware of those that aren’t that way I say.
While i had often seen it promoted as a Windows equivalent, and every distro i have tried (and i have tried all the major ones and ten some) was fine for the Internet (once you figured out how to get Flash installed) or or writing (thank God for Firefox and OpenOffice/LibreOffice, yet they all had configuration issues or other problems which were far more than Windows (since W/ME), and required a far greater learning curve. An examination of the many Linux forums bears this out (and advice almost always seems to require one be a Geek).
I would like to see it be a more switchable alternative for Windows users, but my opinion, for what its worth (as a Windows “power user” but Linux novice), is that until Linux reduces (even more) the great reliance upon run scripts, and becomes more uniform in how to configure, with detailed customization and configuration easily found more in one main place, but with expanded GUI capabilities (i do like the KDE interface more), and even enables most of the same program files to be downloaded and installed on different distros just like they can be for Windows, then it will remain overall an OS for Geeks.
My latest installs were of Linux Mint 12, which i commented on here, regarding the above, and OpenSuse 12, which required much assistance to get my printer installed, and to get full R+W rights to my Windows drives.