Wow, that's the first time I've ever seen someone complain that they couldn't download nagware for Linux. It's all free! But, hey, to each their own.

I was going to post and say that a few hours of a try isn't enough to see the wow in Linux, but others have done so. A little too much so, I might say. I understand the author's point to be simply a vignette on his one experience. It's his weblog, after all.

If the message is that "I wasn't wowed in an hour or two, other people won't be either, and desktop Linux isn't going anywhere", then I'd have to agree to an extent. And that's fine. If Windows-World isn't so bad for you, great.

But for me, the thing that makes my Windows use absolute hell is the lack of very small, very subtle things, like multiple desktops when I want them (rarely), and everything-is-a-file. Lacking the latter is a killer, for me. And I just can't do without the command line. Anybody who thinks communicating in pictures is "easier" than using words, is fooling themselves.

But I see the author's point. It would be nice if Linux could wow the desktop user in one hour's use.