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

I don't think we need to derail this thread anymore because it does sound like things have changed, and like I said I've found the information much more available for my more current systems. But I know how to google as well as anybody, and if there were easy to find answers when I needed them I'd have found them. Contrast that to any Windows problem where you can often find 2-3 helpful articles in the first 5 google results of your first query.