GV, For machine aware people it is ready. For standard consumers who know what on 'on' switch is.....barely, I would say.
It is rapidly agining on WIndows since windows has become so large that it is chaotic to make any changes and the time to find the bugs stretched out enormously in Win98 to the point where the service pack (win98SE) was needed to fill the gap until win2000....whenever that ships/works.
With the sea of developers scattered globally developing new things for Linux it is doing very well. The part that goes more slowly are the larger applications that get beyond a few people(spread sheets, data bases, graphics programs, desk top publishing, browsers,word processors, Cad/Cam, Video, etc). Often these are too big for 1-2 people to complete and they need structure....like herding cats(BTW, That superbowl ad with the catherd was one of the funniest commercials I have ever seen, a sea of cats covering the range like cat(tle) in the old days stampeding...hahahaha).
Hopefully Red hat, Debian, Corel, Yggdrasil and the rest of the groups who shepherd their own releases can do this and avoid a splintering of Linux in the way Unix was diasporated(is that a word?)
What's going on with Yggdrasil? they seem to be lagging into obscurity, at one time they had the best package manager...of course they are better now??
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