"My wife - and seemingly most other women - just want to get from A to B as simply and effortlessly as possible. And if she gets lost, she will read a map because she wants to get unlost as simply and effortlessly as possible."
No, I'm serious.
This is the mentality required in order to use Linux. If you want to do something, you don't have to go through multiple steps. You can just go straight from A to B in one step and just "do" whatever it is you want to do.
The only problem is that there is a learning curve. In other words, when you're lost, you have to look at a map.
Men are from PCs, women are from Macs
Men are from PCs, women are from Macs