If you really do want my opinion, which you don't. Spend some time reading around comparisons, understand the real abstractions, ideas, and histories which forced the design of all those languages. Learn some (non-exhaustive list) LISP/Scheme, Haskell, ML, Python, Perl, Basic, Ada, Erlang, Self, Prolog. Then learn different languages with different cultures behind them. Really, what makes you think you can learn the relative merits of C++ from a C++ book? No, learn CS, and CE. Yeah that's a lot to ask I know, but that's just me :P If Joe wants to use Linux he should get some fundamental understanding of stuff. IMHO Linux should never get any easier, just to please Joe Average. I got no problem with it, but Joe Average would.

However, one thing a linux user should know how to do is compile. Of course maybe that's because I've installed a number of OSs till now and it might seem normal. I daresay the installation process was easier than I expected.

Well Joe Average can go and install RedHat or Mandrakeīy the way, yesterday I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 (my first contact with the FreeBSD world). People like you and me can install things like Linux with little or no problems but Joe Average obviously cant which is why he prefers to pay for an OS that really installs itself.

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