> It was the first time I can say that installing a linux OS was easier and friendlier than Windows.
It's been that way for about 20 years. Where have you been?
It's been that way for about 20 years. Where have you been?
So years ago you also generally had to understand partitioning and filesystem formats, which most people are clueless about.
Sure, they were learning opportunities, but most people weren’t trying to learn anything. They just wanted to get on MySpace, download free music, chat with friends.
No-one really needed to care about partitioning.
I remember spending a lot of time partitioning stuff in those early days, especially if trying to dual boot.
My last laptop used an audio amplifier that made the speakers not work for ~2 years, that required patching the kernel to fix. It's only recently a vanilla version of the kernel works.
We aren't completely out of the woods yet.
It certainly was not as easy to setup as Windows.