> nowadays many just want Linux to be 'free windows'
This means Linux has "made it."
> I liked to think of the linux community as generally being a more technical community, and that was true for a long time when you needed more grit to get everything running
I guess that grit was a gateway to a basic Linux experience for a long time - it did take a lot of effort to get a normal desktop running in the early to mid 90's. But that was never going to last - technical people tend to solve problems and open source means they're going to be available to anyone. There are new frontiers to apply the grit.
This means Linux has "made it."
> I liked to think of the linux community as generally being a more technical community, and that was true for a long time when you needed more grit to get everything running
I guess that grit was a gateway to a basic Linux experience for a long time - it did take a lot of effort to get a normal desktop running in the early to mid 90's. But that was never going to last - technical people tend to solve problems and open source means they're going to be available to anyone. There are new frontiers to apply the grit.