It's nothing wrong with locking some doors as long...

It's nothing wrong with locking some doors as long as the key is handed over to the user. I do the same with Linux for my mom and even my self. I guess we all can agree that it's a bad idea to be logged on as root (to many open doors?), so we use an account restricted user privileges (we don't want the user to get hurt), we use sudo instead (the key) for safety and security. I see no problem with this model and a UI can work the same way. I think most average users (on a mass market) prefer safe and secure access to the system trough user friendly UI applications. Power users should however be free to tinker under the hood if necessary (CLI, root access, source code etc.). That would to me be the big divider between GNU/Linux and the rest (from the claustrophobic products from Apple, to the gated community offered by Microsoft to promising hybrid environments from Google). I personally love the GNU/Linux freedom but the totally fragmented situation on the desktop is slowly driving me away from using it for anything that requires a desktop. Everything is fragmented, development tool chains, widget sets, desktop environments, packaging systems etc. I would not complain if they all where functional complete and rock solid but that is not the case. Seems like there is always some detail not working or missing in every distribution, update, configuration. I'm sick and tired of trying to keep my GNU/Linux desktop working for my family (of average Joe users). GNU/Linux will stay on the server side and on embedded devices where it makes sense but I think I eventually have to abandon it as my development environment for desktop applications and the shared family desktop :(