In response to comment on my previous post, let me define what mean with 'The year of the Linux desktop'. I would be something like: Linux is quite widespread on the home desktop market. Apple has around 6-7 %, something like that would suffice. My prediction is that this will take maybe four years (meaing sometimes in 2013). That would mean that Linux would be so easy and useable that (compared to for example Windows XP) a normal, non-technical user can use it with spending a similar amount of time on configuration and system management issues, it would need a similar level of knowledge (note that this can be entirely different *kind* of knowledge than other OS:es, but total computer illitterate user could learn them in a similar amount of time), and that most normal tasks could be done with a similar level of functionality, hassle and ease-of-use.

Currently, this is not the case for the majority of non-technical user.