good read. I feel ya on a lot of those little annoyances, especially themeing and GNOMEification

Yeah, as an avid Linux user I relate to this post. Although I love Linux it's sometimes too obscure... My window manager stopped automatically starting for no reason and although I fixed it partially it's still broken. Although Linux deserves to be mainstream in my opinion it still has a lot to do and it has the classic struggles of a software that began to be popular