I don't really wanna get drawn into this but...
When a Unix based product can:
Arrive on a boxed CD,
Come with free support from the vendor,
More or less install itself without asking the end user to find things like video card model numbers,
Automatically detect internet connections and install drivers for them,
Etc etc etc....
Then the masses will go for it and leave Micro$oft wanting.
Mandrake Linux, SUSE Linux and Fedora (except for the boxed CD) fit those bills and they really are at least as easy to install as Windows. The only trouble I can forsee would be with harddisk partitioning, but the installers for the three distros mentioned above have self-partitioning capabilities so it's not a particularly huge obstical.
That's all I wanted to say. Carry on
