I have another anecdote for you. My mom, a 79 year-old retired tourist agency owner and occasional tour guide had a Windows machine. When I gave up on fighting viruses on her Windows XP machine, I moved her to a Mac running OS9. Then I set her up with an Ubuntu box.
She does her upgrades through the GUI (after the machine prompts her), runs mostly Firefox, imports her photos into Shotwell, shares them with her friends (on e-mail - she doesn't like Facebook), writes letters (and mail the printed copies) and seems generally comfortable with that.
She moved from Gnome 2 to Unity without thinking twice. She prefers Unity.
My housemate didn't have problems with browsing or photos either. Things like a pair of bluetooth headphones, which had linux support, were a nightmare (for him) to get sorted. The desire to use a pair of bluetooth headphones really shouldn't require a power user.
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I have another anecdote for you. My mom, a 79 year-old retired tourist agency owner and occasional tour guide had a Windows machine. When I gave up on fighting viruses on her Windows XP machine, I moved her to a Mac running OS9. Then I set her up with an Ubuntu box.
She does her upgrades through the GUI (after the machine prompts her), runs mostly Firefox, imports her photos into Shotwell, shares them with her friends (on e-mail - she doesn't like Facebook), writes letters (and mail the printed copies) and seems generally comfortable with that.
She moved from Gnome 2 to Unity without thinking twice. She prefers Unity.
My housemate didn't have problems with browsing or photos either. Things like a pair of bluetooth headphones, which had linux support, were a nightmare (for him) to get sorted. The desire to use a pair of bluetooth headphones really shouldn't require a power user.