on my primary computer here at home i use ubuntu i really dont consider myself anything more than a user however i do have a windows pc standing by incase i do something dumb... i use cli atleast 3-4 times a week....and alot of it can be found online easily cut and pasted into terminal...as for my nice quad core xp machine...well i use it to do some stuff mostly run vmware workstation got my osx fix there...so yes linux is for geeks....but my wife uses it and can do most things with out trouble shes by no way a geek...