Giving Linux to the unaccustomed?

[NickJohnson]

I was kidding you know...

[linguofreak]

Yes, but not every computer user is an admin / developer type.

And even those that are don't want to be all the time.

I'm comfortable at the command line. I'm not scared of editing various and sundry config files to get some extra feature. I'm running a custom-compiled kernel rather than the Ubuntu default. But when I'm doing something basic like web-browsing, or writing up a paper, or playing a game, I don't want to have to put on my sysadmin hat to make it work.

[Solar]

Yes, but not every computer user is an admin / developer type.

[...] But when I'm doing something basic like web-browsing, or writing up a paper, or playing a game, I don't want to have to put on my sysadmin hat to make it work.

To be fair, you don't have to, not even with Gentoo, at least once everything is set up properly. I was more referring to the road to that point.