You have to give credit to Microsoft, they really took the "evil corporation spying on customers and treating them as cattle" ethic to the next level in recent years. I often take my mother as a benchmark of software usability, she's old but not stupid - a few ticks above a typical consumer who is both stupid and ignorant. She uses Mint MATE and is perfectly happy with it, only occasionally needing my help which I can easily provide through SSH/VNC. A few years ago it was not possible, everything worked well but from time to time something nuclear would happen, like an update taking out GRUB. She lives two or three countries from me so immediate support is not really a viable option, and she's strictly a user, solving software problems is definitely not within her reach. She has a secondary machine running Windows 10, but used only for tax reasons. The tax office uses mandatory Windows software and only accepts Microsoft Office files, which tells you how the Inadequateimpotent corporation penetrated the market.
So yeah, in userland Linux moves at a speed of an old glacier, but it does move.
