That's great. But, this was Bill Gates using the product from the company that he founded and ran. Familiarity should seriously not enter into it.
"They've done it different, and people who know the system can use it very effectively, but those of us who don't know the incantations are still out in the cold."
Agreed, but seriously, I've never had to go through such steps to do anything in Linux unless it was, for example, a brand new piece of hardware that didn't have kernel module. This was Microsoft Windows user trying to install Microsoft Moviemaker software by Microsoft. And, it took all that.
"They've done it different, and people who know the system can use it very effectively, but those of us who don't know the incantations are still out in the cold."
Agreed, but seriously, I've never had to go through such steps to do anything in Linux unless it was, for example, a brand new piece of hardware that didn't have kernel module. This was Microsoft Windows user trying to install Microsoft Moviemaker software by Microsoft. And, it took all that.