Let's face it: "Serious Operationg Systems", i.e. systems the end user has full control over and can in principle accomplish any task with are a thing of the past, and these times won't be coming back. [...] Some people say that computers have just "grown up", because they think that this state of maturity includes that the end user would not have to care about how it works. It just does. For the manufacturer this mindset facilitates support and generates additional ROI (user data). [...]