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The me that read HHGTTG back in the 1980's loved it. I still re-read them every few years and enjoy it, though not as much. It was a lot more fun when fewer people knew about it and making a connection with someone who did was a rare thing.
People reading it today probably go in with unreasonably high expectations (not their fault), and are disappointed because, yeah, it's been done and ripped off to death.
When I re-read it, I like to put myself in the context of the time. Same with a lot of old classic SF. Today, it wouldn't pass muster, but for the time, it was thought provoking stuff. I don't blame the author for the passage of time.
If we're going to get into operating systems, we should open it up to distro wars as well. (Debian on desktop, laptop and server)
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