It's a new OS, therefore it has a learning curve. Even switching to a new Windows is a learning curve, one that I've avoided for as long as possible every time they've "updated" the damn thing (I took both Ubuntu and Windows 7 then-Beta off my lil' Acer when I got it for just that reason). I know the conceits, I know where everything is. Because the simple truth is "obvious" never is to someone who hasn't used it before. I'm entirely not interested in spending a hour swapping my OS, then several days figuring out how to run my games and make my speakers work and figure out how much battery life my lil' Acer has left and get my lil' Acer to talk to my Zune.

I am not a computer geek, I don't give a flying fuck about knowing these things as some sort of personal edification, I just want to play games and listen to podcasts/music and futz around on the internet. I know I can do that with Windows; I have no assurance that I'll be able to do it with anything else without considerable output. I won't take your word for it because you are a computer geek, your perception of what's easy and obvious are unlikely to match mine, particularly not when you have an axe to grind.