Actually, thats not how open source works. But you have at least two true points between the lines: 1. Linux is not easy to install: Most of the problems durin

Actually, thats not how open source works. But you have at least two true points between the lines: 1. Linux is not easy to install: Most of the problems during installation are still driver issues. The issues are mainly not existing drivers or proprietary binary drivers. Wherever open source drivers exist with the support of the hardware manufacturer they work just great (stable and out of the box). 2. We have lots of distributions but to my knowledge none is just awesome to use: I used Ubuntu for a few years on different machines but major updates were often problematic, and every 2 years or so you had to reinstall (sucks). On my desktop computer I used Gentoo for a while but source based distributions have special problems (dependency resolution is sometimes harder and you have all the trouble if some ABI breaks). In the last 2 years I switched most of my computers to Arch which has the advantage of having rolling releases, so no major updates and no reinstall requirements (yeah). But while source based distributions make it easy to integrate 3rd party repositories to your system, Arch has the so called AUR (Arch User Repositories) which is even more complicated to use than Gentoo or Exherbo, as the provided tools are just not as good. But without the AUR there are many packages missing in Arch. So for the moment I will stick with Arch, but I really hope there will be something equally long living, up-to-date, stable and even more complete and extendable. (Btw. before Ubuntu I tried Fedora, Debian and SuSE, which all had their own problems)