I'm going to have to disagree with him somewhat also.The situation with you and your wife is more like the corporate case than the home user case. In a corporate setting you have a sysadmin whose job it is to set up the computers and help fix your problems. That exactly what you do for your wife. My wife could also work just fine on Linux if I installed it and answered a few simple questions. But if I handed her a Mandrake CD and wished her luck she'd be in a bad way. She's a smart lass, too, but she just doesn't have any experience with that stuff.
I must say that my wife (not a computer person) has very little problem using Linux for all her computing needs. The only time she does have a problem is when I spent the previous evening upgrading or tweaking and some how left evolution or Gaim not installed (oops). As for Matthew Szulik's 90 year old father, I think he wouldn't have any trouble whatsoever doing the things he would want to do with Linux. (Email, web)
There aren't just two distinct groups of users: corporate and home. I would dare say there is a large section of home-users that would have no problems using a Linux desktop. As for those not in that group. . . I, for one, won't suggest what other operating system you can use.
Greg
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