Quote from masipay:
> Linux has not been popular probably because of nerds like you who take
pride
> in glory of computing in an environment other than Windows, a system
developed
> for use for everyday people. And that is the point, 'Doing things the hard
> way, making it hard for ordinary Joe'
You probably never used Linux directly. Linux is just a kernel: the program
that talks to your hardware. It's really not worth talking about Linux unless
you're having a hardware compatibility problem.
I think it's silly to talk about the popularity of "Linux". Many people are
stupidly fanatic about "Linux", but they often don't even know what Linux
actually is; I once saw an image of "Linux distros" that included FreeBSD and
PCBSD, neither of which have Linux in them. What people really think of, most
of the time, when they say "Linux" is whatever Unix-like operating system
they happen to like most; it's an illusion of unity between several unrelated
interests.
Arch and its free variant, Parabola, is a system clearly meant for "geeks".
You need to have a lot of patience, read the manuals, and be prepared for
problems due to it being bleeding-edge and rolling-release. It would be
stupid to recommend this system to average PC users.
But Trisquel is not like Arch. It's a free variant of Ubuntu, which is
absolutely meant for beginners. To be perfectly frank, I think Ubuntu is a
lot easier than Windows 7 (can't comment on Windows 8, since I've never used
that); if you put the two together and ask someone who has never seen either
in their life, I would bet everything that this person would have a much
easier time with Ubuntu than Windows. I don't think this translates directly
to Trisquel thanks to Trisquel using GNOME Fallback by default rather than
Unity (I do hope they go with GNOME Shell by default for the next release,
which I think is much better), but it's still not something that I would
describe as hard to use.
Your problem you've described indeed has nothing to do with how easy Trisquel
is to use. It came about because you handled getting rid of Trisquel badly.
What you should have done is changed GRUB's settings to select Windows by
default and have a short timer for automatically booting the default
selection, unless you wanted to format your hard drive and reinstall Windows.
