The youtube video (a guy ending up in Events screen unintentionally all the time) from User experience thread and a post by ARJWright got me thinking: can Jolla/Sailfish suffer from the same "this is a new way of doing things and I don´t want to learn it or put the time in learning it" reaction as Windows 8 did?

Some aspects of Sailfish (no more easy buttons, no visual clues for all the gestures at least, no continuity for those who change from Android/WP/iOS) came to my mind afer watching this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYet...&feature=share

Are there parallels and how can we avoid the pitfalls?

To start answering myself:
1) Yes, to a degree. Sailfish is still much, much easier to learn than any OS designed for computers. There are only a quite limited amount of gestures and they should be simple to learn, if the new user just has the patience and will to learn them.
2) Perhaps Jolla should make the tutorial a bit longer and more in-your-face, so that all new users would go through it. The other step is to promote the videos and the guide on their site a lot.