lol. What a noob. Changing screen brightness is easy. Do you know what distro he was using?
Bad thing about Linux is that it doesn't support games, and there's not a lot of point in it for the casual PC user (I'm into programming, security, hardware, all that jazz. Most normal computer users aren't). For that stuff, Linux is definitely better than Windows. But for just getting stuff done and playing games, definitely Windows.
Anyway, I would like to see computers such as the ones in Minority Report:
http://xenophilius.files.wordpress.c...-report-ui.jpg
That'd be epic to the extreme.