Wow, apparently he didn't understand that Linux isn't an OS for noobs.
The whole point is that you can mold Linux to whatever hardware and software platforms you want.
That's not the point of Linux.
Linux isn't necessarily designed to be user-friendly, depending on the distro.
It's an OS in which the user can FULLY customize the kernel, back-end, and front-end.
You can't do that with Windows and OS X, they are far too rigid to mold to anything other than x86 and ARM platforms, and even then it's limited at best and even less so with Windows.
If this idiot wants a user-friendly OS, he needs to go with OS X as even Windows will be too difficult for him to fully understand.
Mindless computing at it's finest.
It's painfully obvious that Linux is far beyond his realm of understanding and comprehension.
He reminds me of these system admins who treat their systems and operations like it was the mid-90's.
Funny, I don't see any of the world's supercomputers running Windows.
Oh wait, they ALL use custom Linux variants.
Holy shit, that article was nothing but a metric-ton of fail.
No need to go farther than this post if you really want to find out the real deterrent to Linux adoption on the desktop.