I am writing a paper for the ACM (those bastards expect me to occaionally contribute) and I need some Linux experts. I will just ask a few questions of you, depending on your own self-declared areas of expertise and if your answers are used I will cite you and either your company or personal webpage or whatever you like.

The subject of the paper is an investigative report on why I don't think Linux meets my, rather typical needs. Is it because Linux just isn't capable, is it because the functionality is so diverse that it is hard to navigate, or is it because I am just uneducated? (hopefully this will help outline trouble areas for other people trying to consider the switch to linux)

Anyhow, I'll be recruiting from elsewhere of course, but I thought it might be fun for some of you.. I am on a strict schedule however so you'll only have a day or two to respond to each question.

If you are interested, please reply here with our area of expertise and favorite distro.

cheers,

catch