Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users

Just about every publication this side of The Sun gets one to four newbies to try moving to Linux -- it has been a standard article for most of the past decade. (Online has done it more than once.) The results are usually a disaster, and in earlier days, sometimes they couldn't even install it, let alone use it. Cue precitable outcry from the Linux bigots. Two things are different about this version. First, it's a monster -- 8,000 words. Second, it is in Linux World.