I hear alot about GNU/Linux not being easy and I use to agree with the sentiment. The motive has generally been that in order to reach a broader view of people it should be made easier to use for the general public. Now this sounds reasonable since most people don’t want people to use Windows but I say, so what if they are. I remember when I first started using GNU/Linux (Mandrake 10.2). It was hard to even get the mouse working but I didn’t give up. I learned and became smarter than I was before I learned how to edit configuration files using vi. Before that point I only had experience with Windows (Point n Click). I loved having to think and learn which empowered me to become better and use the brain we have been given since birth. Human beings want technology to be easy so they can be lazy but we should want technology that empowers us to do more and become more than what we are now. Most GNU/Linux distros were faster such as Mandrake 10.2 without all of the added (Let’s make this easier for the user and pile on code to predict what the user will or won’t do for them). Let Windows be easy for the people that want something easy (which it’s really not). Let them pay for the very expensive license cost or Windows tax incurred from purchasing a new computer. I want GNU/Linux to be the BEST OS not another Windows (bloated, unreliable, slow, buggy with no way to learn and fix for yourself, etc.). I don’t care if the rest of the world doesn’t want to use GNU/Linux I have the Freedom to choose otherwise and I choose GNU/Linux!