Linux has a long way to go to offer the desktop experience Windows does. It needs to quit being the "Me too" OS it is. Windows/Office offers a better, grander desktop experience, whereas Linux brings almost nothing to the table and lags behind MS and Apple. People criticize Microsoft for changing a lot of things, and doing this and that, but all I have to say is there are reasons for that, Linux has been the same thing since 1998. There is a reason why they do all the studies that they do. Change can be a good thing
Until then, Linux will always remain a niche OS limited to the few who bought it with their netbooks or the 1337's who would rather use it over Windows and Mac. It just doesn't offer much.
