
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
How could something like OS X become so easy, so pretty, so stable so fast?
Answer: It didn't. Mac OS X (NeXTSTEP) has been improved and worked on for over ten years. It's ease of use is attributed to several years and many millions of dollars of HCI research.