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Distrowatch has dozens

Therein lies part of the problem. If the geeks who develop these distros put aside some of their personal preferences and created three superior and gramma-friendly products, they'd be singing a different tune and have better "market-share". People other than them might bother using them and learning about them.

Before the Linux/Unix folks start on their rants about their superior product, here's my take: if you have to click on an .msi, .rar or other file extension (except .zip or .exe) to launch your product, it's not user-friendly.

If the geeks who develop these distros put aside some of their personal preferences and created three superior and gramma-friendly products, they'd be singing a different tune and have better "market-share".

You're missing the intent of the number of choices.

Sure there are hundreds of different distros out there, but most of them are special-purpose. ie DVR, database, gaming, etc.

There are much fewer GP distros--Fedora, Ubuntu, and Slackware--along with their derivatives.

Compare that choice to what MS gives us--Personal, Home, Business and Enterprise (or whatever they're naming them these days). All of those actually have the software on the disc--they're just not "turned on." With Linux, everything's turned on by default.

BTW--file extensions mean nothing in Linux. Literally.