Pardon me for being dumb, but a major hurdle to learning Linux is the directory. The file abbreviations are made for the text console and keyboard, but with a nice GUI a descriptive name system would really help. Also, the directory tree seems less than hierarcical. I'm using old SuSE 6.4. I've played with old and new Gnome, and old and new KDE. The stylistic "Nautilus" and "Konqueror" are dubious file manager improvements. MS Windows (since 3.0) does have a very clean directory and system configuration structure. I realize this is an apples and oranges comparison. But even simple configuration of Linux isn't simple.