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It's even more damning when you realize the Windows stage 1 installation process is essentially unchanged since Vista. The Linux people had nearly 20 years to straighten this out.

Installing Ubuntu bricked a Samsung laptop I had some years back. Never again.

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Windows installation is only easier for non-technical users in that someone else (usually their laptop manufacturer) does it for them.

> Installing Ubuntu bricked a Samsung laptop I had some years back. Never again.

What? How? I've never seen an installation break the BIOS. I'm sure it's possible, but I wonder what went wrong here.

Some buggy uefis can actually get bricked when clearing or writing to the wrong efivars. But blaming anything but the hardware manufacturer for is misguided to say the least.

For me, at this point in my history of installing Linux, this is about as unsurprising as it gets. You've had an incredibly lucky history in this regard (or perhaps are younger than I am by 5-10 years).

I have never had such a problem. And I have been installing Linux (distros) since 2003.

My point wasn't that you've had that specific issue but rather that similarly strange issues were/are incredibly common.

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