Evolution to Linux

Once upon a time, there lived a sincere and hardworking child. He was, in his adolescence, introduced to this thing called windows95. A wonderful thing he thought of it. He grew up with it, upgrading to the latest version released, he grew up with it oblivious of the alternatives available, he grew up with it unaware of the fact that there is possibility of a choice and probably he did not grow at all. Not to mention he was involuntarily involved in the multi-trillion dollar industry of pirated software. Then few years down the line, his windows machine started to crash at regular intervals. Frustrated, he set out to look for another alternative and found this extremely difficult to use software called Linux. But by then the windows machine had irritated him enough to force him to use this obscure looking penguin software.
And then started the journey of the boy, a journey full of discoveries, a journey that made him grow, a journey that was true, a journey to which he had a right to. At every step, though with lot of difficulties, he discovered new things, new applications, the power of his box and above all the possibilities that existed in the world. These things motivated him to explore more, create his own applications and modify the existing ones according to his needs, the power of open source. He found out that he was not alone in this endeavour, there were a lot of people like him. He started networking and started to learn, and now in true sense he was more than just a technology user, or at least he felt so.
Evolution is the truth of life. If we do not evolve, Darwin says we will become extinct. Then why do we look for convenient things(like windows) in our lifes, things that will in their convenience disable our desire and ability to learn and develop/evolve. Just because open source software's like Linux throw up technological challenges, why do we(as producers of technology) shy away from them. Is this a sign of our incompetence, a sign of our decay? I wonder.