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It reminds me Silicon Valley (S03E09) when they introduced "Pipy (or Piedpy?)" to help the user through their UI which user is too dumb to use..

That sounds like Lithuania to me.. One of the largest local IT companies are prosecuted now because of dirty contracts with SODRA (social care stuff)..

My grandfather (85 Years Old) is using linux for 5 years now. Never got a call to fix or do something.. (Installed KDE based distro)

My Parents (55) share a laptop at home (about 1 year now), installed Fedora (default GNOME) - never got a call.

My Youger Brother (18, finishing High-School this year) uses Ubuntu, for 4 years I think, I've convinced him that he could still play games there if wanted.. I get calls from him only when he wants to run some game that needs some advanced Wine tweaking and it involves command like (otherwise he is just using Play On Linux I think or whatever - I just don't game).

None of them is computer savvy or computer literate...

They all use different major Linux DE.. And they all seem to just be fine!

My Wife (27) currently uses Elementary OS (With Pantheon DE, which is not a major DE as we call them) - she's also nor computer literate nor savvy, and also using the Linux just fine!

The only problem I see, which rises from my wifes experience, there is no simple Paint alternative, were you'd have very basic options (cropping, rotating and maybe some brush/text) with a decent UI to make changes to a photo/image.. Same goes for easy PDF editing, but I already made her master Inkscape, but still - something easier and more straightforward would be awesome.

So the lack of software is still true for linux in 2016 in certain areas. I could convert a lot of audio/video editing people to linux, but there is just not enough professional grade software for them on linux..

In the end - apparently average Joe can use Linux today for browsing internet, viewing pdfs and doing Libre Office stuff just as well as on any other operating system (Windows, OS X)..

What has rust to do with Nix?

The 'INFO' button on the app says:

'Kipplr's name is inspired by Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and by the concept of "Kipple"'.

I think what he means is that transfers wouldn't be concurrent but sequential - quable. For example - you start transfer from A to B (in KDE and Dolphin it goes to background), then you would like to do a transfer from C to B - in reality they would be transferred simultaneously, but what the author above wants is queue - that transfer from C to B would start automatically AFTER A to B finishes.

At least I'd like this feature..

Would you mind making this effort open-source for a possibility to build completely open-source computer? The Novena laptop had all things except GPU because there is no open source GPU which would have all the schematics available. Some guy from Germany, I think, is also working on open-source design GPU on FPGA.