> They want to use their PCs to watch movies, browse internet, play the occasional game, edit some simple documents, use a spreadsheet, and get some stuff done.
Except for the getting stuff done part, those are tablet users (I mean, they really only need a browser and may as well be using a tablet or ChromeOS). This sort of strawman "average" user, and the obsession with catering to them while at the same time insisting on your own superiority, is what has doomed the Linux Desktop to what it is today. You can tell yourself all you want that it's everyone else's fault Linux Desktop has a market share south of 4%, but it won't make it true.
Also digging the "works fine for me!", straight out of the Linux Evangelist playbook from 1995.
I never argued the Linux Desktop was superior to anything else, just that I liked it better, and that I found Windows (circa version 7) less useful, buggier and harder to use. I concede that it has probably gotten better in later versions (certainly, it used to be that a graphics crash crashed the whole system!), but I've had enough of Windows and no reason to use it. You make a good point about tablets, but that's a good argument against general purpose PCs, be it Windows, OS X or Linux.
The average user obviously doesn't use Linux. I'm just saying that they could, because Linux excels at the kinds of tasks they usually need to do (including, but not limited to, casual gaming, installing apps, using a spreadsheet, etc). The reasons why they don't have nothing to do with multi-gpu multi-monitor setups, which the average user doesn't own. It probably has more to do with familiarity, with the relative marketshares of Windows vs Linux, with the lack of good enough Office-like suites, etc -- but I'm not even arguing this is the complete list of reasons, and the issue certainly merits more exploration.
I'm not trying to "blame" anything on anyone, either. I'm just disagreeing with you and saying you're (in my opinion) not making any good arguments for your assertions, for example about package managers.
> Also digging the "works fine for me!", straight out of the Linux Evangelist playbook from 1995.
This is not even an argument. It seems you're trying to pick a fight for reasons I don't understand.
PS: though I would say "owning hundreds of AAA games for Linux" is an actual argument on my part, and not a "play" from any "playbook".
Except for the getting stuff done part, those are tablet users (I mean, they really only need a browser and may as well be using a tablet or ChromeOS). This sort of strawman "average" user, and the obsession with catering to them while at the same time insisting on your own superiority, is what has doomed the Linux Desktop to what it is today. You can tell yourself all you want that it's everyone else's fault Linux Desktop has a market share south of 4%, but it won't make it true.
Also digging the "works fine for me!", straight out of the Linux Evangelist playbook from 1995.