@Ayespy Ta for the time & effort you put into that. It was interesting.
"It's perhaps not so much psychological as situational for many persons" ... i suspect that is not only a fair but probably also accurate summation... of why more people don't actually use Linux, but not [i humbly suggest] of some people's almost aggressive mindset of not even being curious. That's not applicable to you; on your own words you admitted curiosity, but that all your "other stuff" obstructs you. So, with that said, you're not one of the hypothetical "types" i was contemplating. Having a curiosity but not the wherewithal to investigate something new, is entirely sensible in my mind. Conversely having no curiosity in the first place, irrespective of temporal wherewithal, is the characteristic which really intrigues me.
That said, i'd just like to respectfully contradict something you touched on a few times, above. It's an old myth, when applied to many contemporary Nix distros & Desktop Environments, that it's "terminal or nothing" in Linux. Yes it's true that in terminal / console / command-line-interface a knowledgeable exponent [not me] can do phenomenal things. However, modern DEs including KDE, Xfce, MATE bring a very Windows-ish look & feel [if that's what is wanted] to Nix, & with these many users can perform grandly without ever needing to alternate GUI with CLI. That you can leverage your operability with CLI as well as GUI is one thing, but in no way is to imply that these GUIs provide anything but a simply remarkable suite of easy aesthetic point & click power to users who want it that way.
So, i do remain intrigued.
