Sorry, but no. Putting that on the users is a no-go.

I agree that Linux is generally stable - when it works (i.e. hardware well supported and the pains of installing and initial setup is gone). But the experience to get to that point is still far from polished, and that don't usually has anything to do with user expectations on how the OS should work.

I've been using Linux on the desktop on and off since 1998 aproximately - way before it was "cool" - and that has always been the case - it was always "almost there, but not quite". That's not a knock on developers either (I'm a developer myself, just not on Linux) - Linux for server stuff is excellent and I've always used it for that, but user experience for desktop stuff always had wrinkles, and I understand how many user experience problems can be hard to solve for developers (who more often than not are volunteers) for many reasons, just let's not put that on the users: things are the way they are for reasons that, at heart, often go beyond users or developers - market, business politics, etc.