> Isn't that fact a huge tell-sign that perhaps you're not the kind of person for whom desktop Linux would be challenging? Well, sure — but I didn't spring for

> Isn't that fact a huge tell-sign that perhaps you're not the kind of person for whom desktop Linux would be challenging? Well, sure — but I didn't spring forth fully-formed from my father's forehead knowing how to use Linux. As a matter of fact, until I switched I was a Mac user. And FWIW both my liberal-arts brother and his liberal-arts wife are now using Linux. My sister-in-law discovered the command line within a week. I won't deny that there are things which are painful in Linux. But are they more common than painful things in Windows? I had to get a Windows machine to do some work on, and it's utterly terrible. I don't just mean the 'this doesn't work the way I'm used to' stuff: that's to be expected. I mean things like randomly prompting me for a smartcard PIN over and over again, when Linux would ask but once. I mean things like wanting to download OS updates as one large file, rather than many small files — which can mean that it's impossible to update the OS on a small disk. I've not used macOS enough in the last decade to really have a critique; every time I use it, I want to hurl the computer through a window, but I freely admit that may simply be down to unfamiliarity, which is no more a critique of macOS than it is of Linux. It is annoying that I can't use a tiling window manager, though.