I don't disagree with him as such that we aren't ready, but I doubt any OS really is ready on all points. I think we have reached a point where most users can comfortably listen to music, play videos, browse the web and so on (ordinary tasks). There is a group of people we will never be ready for for various reasons but I believe the majority of all people would be fine on a Linux desktop.
Also being in progress doesn't mean it's hopelessly broken now, just that in some cases a few corners need to be polished. I am hestitant to call any bit of FLOSS totally finished. I would consider PackageKit and Pulseaudio pretty solid, there are problems with the backends, ALSA e.g. needs some fixing but for most setups now both are very nice. so his whole point of saying this is a mess is wrong, which is what I aimed to counter, we are aware that it's problematic, we have solutions and they are ready for deployment.
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