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I fear more end-users are more worried about getting pictures easily from their digital cameras and printing them with their photo printer. Or playing their favorite game. Or syncing their palm. I don't think most people care if they're using the latest x.x.x release of all their software. Linux just doesn't quite offer the ease-of-use of Windows. I just don't think Linux is ready for mainstream (or any time soon.) While Linux offers many choices to users who care, the regular users probably don't want to have to choose between KDE, Gnome, CDE, XFCE, E or Alsa and OSS or Cups, LPR, LPRng or any of the hundreds of Linux distros out there. OS X is really the only Unix-based OS ready for the general public.. I think a large part of that is because they don't offer tons and tons of choices just to have the system running.