> The terminal is going to be a non-starter for your average computer user.

My wife is the average computer user and has used Linux apps for years and never opened a terminal once.

Who installed linux and did the initial setup? And then I think there is a class of user that is savvy enough to say, update their graphics drivers but not willing to use a terminal and that is before you get into the mess that is Nvidia on linux.

I agree, under a managed setup scenario where a user is only really going to use a web browser and a few apps. Linux is just fine.

I mentioned the same thing somewhere north of your comment.

My wife rocks Arch and could not care less.