re: Tell me why linux wouldn't work for a large majority of residential users

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you sure?

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Very much so. Granted my situation is a bit different than the set up we're talking about for home consumers, but anything that needs to be done manually on a less than current system where you can't just use these software repositories to get the latest versions of a program, you are often stumbling around in the dark because the manual/command line side of Linux is populated by the type of people that came up with the RTFM acronym and would rather point you to a thick book they had to read to find the answer than share the answer with you. I once had to update a mysql installation manually and the only place I found the command line help I needed was in the comments on a less than helpful article on the subject. I think the GUI side of Linux is probably better, I know I've found plenty of soluitons for cPanel related issues, but anything old school command line relies on a population that would rather give you a manual on how to survive in the wilderness than an answer on how to catch fish.