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My experience consist of few debian installs back in the day, a lot of life boot CD to risque the data from dead windows laptops with dd nc and currently my main is Arch linux desktop. The occasional persistent mint USB flash for remote offices. And the occasional install and config of testing server environments.

No issues with hardware support at all. But there is very steep learning curve - I think that is the main thing the community must focus on. Just introduce new users to the system gently. I have few requests recently about migrating to linux after the NSA stuff blew up. And sadly have to tell the people not yet unless you like to get your hands dirty.



Your use cases for Linux would seem to call for a steep learning curve with the exception of the Mint bootable USB.

$ConsumerDistro of your choice on recentish laptop (not Optimus) should require less knowledge.

$ConsumerDistro = [Mint|Ubuntu LTS|Lubuntu] != [Arch|Slackware]

CentOS, Stella, Debian stock and FedoraRecent almost make it to consumer level but not quite in my opinion.




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