It may come as a shock to you but no one says that Linux is ready for the desktop. I don't think Linux is ready for my Aunt either.
Actually, if you look at comp.os.linux.advocacy, there are a lot of people saying it is. I'm not sure I take people on *ANY* advocacy group too seriously, however. They're fun to read, but not too realistic.
Hah! Just look on the boxes from any of the major distributors... SuSE, RH, etc. Especially on the "Personal" editions, they can hardly stop patting themselves on the back, in print, about how friendly and usable [their flavour of] Linux is.
And they ARE friendly and usable... until you hit some dumb little user-interface or operational glitch that Windows figured out in 1996.
I have rarely found out those glitchs in Linux. I always find tons of them when I use Windows XP. Did they really figure out anything in 96, or am I dumb? Praise