The Stomach-Churning Prospect of Installing Linux

[TechNews]

 It was just the other day the suggestion was made that Linux is best-suited for bachelors. That assertion set off quite a little storm of controversy, as alert readers may recall. The latest match to be tossed onto this tinderbox of a topic? A post over on LXer provocatively titled, "Anyone can use the Linux operating system." Ninety percent of today's Linux distributions "can be easily used by just about anyone when properly configured and presented with a couple minutes of explanation to the new user," wrote Thoughts on Technology blogger Jeff Hoogland.