Not just about wanting to learn...
Have you tried to find information for running Linux, installing software, where to find drivers for it. For a newbie it is extremely difficult. You try to search for it on current search engines you are lucky if you find anything. You have to use curtain searches to find the information you are looking for and if you don't know what to type in you can't find any information. I know this because it took me almost a year to finally figure out what words to use to find any information on Linux. Laziness is not always the case. The information on searching should for anything Linux should be listed on all the websites you download linux from this would help some people who are not lazy to learn to use linux, it would also help people get drivers and programs for linux. When this starts to happen you could be surprised and find a much larger linux user base. Most people will give something a week to get set up and then start using it. If setup and using takes longer than a week regardless of what you can use it for and do with it most people figure if it takes to long to set up it is a waste of time. Because the information for everything linux is not easy to find linux is nothing more than a hobby to be figured out then if something changes as far as setting up you have to relearn everything. To most people this i just a waste of time.