InTheSand: linux started out with one guy linus and grew to a very respectable alternitive os it isnt very useful for home use since it is unix.
UNIX isn't the problem. It's XWindows and KDE/Gnome running on top of UNIX that determines how useful it is for the home. As much as I respect Linux as a kernel, GNU doesn't really make things easy at the shell level, and the GUIs available for Linux aren't very impressive at all.
What I liked most about the Amiga was Workbench, though the CLI was pretty straightforward. I don't care what kernel or OS is underneath. I care about the desktop, the tools, and how it "feels." Linux (or really, each distro of it) is a completely destandardized mess by comparrison.
