The average Drupal user has an absurdly high technical level, which leads to the second big problem: Nearly all of drupal.org is beyond the neophyte's abilities. That's as it must be at this stage of Drupal's maturity. Drupal is still a developer's tool; does it have the potential to become usable to the average person who wants a Web presence beyond WordPress and Yahoo! SiteBuilder? Maybe. But it's not there yet.
A boon to beginners: the "Acquia Drupal stack installer" (DAMP)
So I eagerly downloaded and tried Acquia's new Drupal Stack Installer (on the Mac), and found that it successfully avoids all these problems. Most importantly, it installs like a Mac application. Double click it, and it goes! For end users, that's huge.
