Ubuntu – good enough for grannies and girlfriends

"The main argument against Ubuntu, and Linux in general, is that it doesn’t have enough driver support, making it impossible for non-computer literate people to simply plug in their devices and do what they need to do. It’s great to see that the community is adding in new drivers at a great rate, and that things like cameras, wireless (which is also vastly improved recently) and now mobile broadband now 'just work', and in this case work much better than Windows.

My girlfriend, who is in no way interested in computers or open source, now complains about having to use Windows in university, because Ubuntu is so much easier and faster to use. I can imagine the same story is playing out all over the world. Hopefully at least "

  >The main argument against Ubuntu, and Linux in general, is that it doesn’t have enough driver support...

There's that. And there's also the "Designed by Committee" feel of much of the interface. Maybe it's not so noticeable to people coming from a Windows background. But, as a primarily Mac user; when using my couple of Linux boxes, I find the lack of attention to detail, or to making disparate parts of the interface behave consistently, makes the whole thing feel just that much more amateurish than it should be.

FYI, it's from 2009