If you double-click with the right mouse button, the window you're currently in gets closed. If you close a directory display with the right button, the directory above it pops up again. Much nicer than in Windows 95. This might not be to everyone's taste, but I like it a lot. All of which is intended to say that I'm not sure whether the demise of Acorn's workstation division is going to lead to any significant number of talented programmers migrating to Linux.
Ease of use is even less so.
Which is a shame, because there's more need for it now than ever. I would briefly like to state my full support of RMS and his vision. Do so, and I will consider not reading LWN again. As a pennance, I suggest a change of the name of your editorial to include 'Gnu'. On the whole I do find LWN to be an exceptional publication.