Who benefits from making Linux hard to use? [Hint] He's one of the world's richest men.[/hint]
Are you interested in this question?

It's a boring question to me.

But I'm interested in open source.
And what if I plug-in my usb-stick with no desktop at all?
With a desktop, which doesn't have icons?
When booting into runlevel 1,2,3?

With a multi-card-reader, I would have 5 icons poping up!

I like the idea of basic functions and having control over my system.
And I don't like the idea of making linux a low-cost windows.

I know a lot of people having these wonderful easy to manage, iconheavy OS.
They cannot install the OS, they have viruses and worms, it's often broken and needs a complete reinstall, and is shutting down for suspicious reasons.
Then I arrive with my knoppix-cd, and make it work again - remove viruses, fdisk, hardwarechecks and so on.

Last time the wonderful icon-OS didn't find the network stuff - I found it in a xy20.cab-file, but I couldn't tell the system, where the programs are, because there where buttons and icons but no button to tell where the cab-files are, and no commandline of course.

And I fear the day, linux will look alike.

Fight the icons!
Kill the buttons!
Run the commandline!