Download and install with ease?
Until Linux (any version) makes it possible to click, download, install without additional searches or steps, it will never take a share of the commercial mainstream market. Example you can try... Pretending you know nothing about Linux (any version) or better yet, let your non-techie mother in law, find, download and install the driver for the Epson Perfection V200 Photo Printer. To do this, I had to first, find it. Secondly, had to go, search for and learn how to download and install the dependencies. I had to click, read, attempt to interpret cryptic code to find out which one I needed, read some more, find another dependency at another website, download, attempt to install, deal with another cryptic error message... Now, have that same person go to a printer's website and download and install a modern Windows HP print driver of his/her choice. Click, download, install, run. Until these problems are rectified, no version of Linux will ever match the ease and comfort level of basic computer users. This, my friends, is the 97% of the population who do not turn on their computers just to tweak them but to get actual work done. After 4 hours, I finally got the V200 Linux driver installed. I pray it never corrupts as I do not want to go through all that hassle again!
