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>
> I don't want to fan the flames, but isn't that exactly what Wojciech is
> suggesting?  That Linux went wrong when it began to cater too much to
> the perceived need to give former Windows users a "user-friendly"
> system?

exactly.

>
> Anyway, I suspect that this discussion more properly belongs on the
> advocacy mailing list. The OP's question probably should have been

is it? it's not advocacy. it's a  warning.