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Yup. If you can't get it installed, you can never try it, which means you can never be wowed and never switch to it full time. Installing Linux used to be a hu

Yup. If you can't get it installed, you can never try it, which means you can never be wowed and never switch to it full time. Installing Linux used to be a huge problem, and that's why Ubuntu became popular. Other distros caught up, but it was really Ubuntu that pushed it.

collyw 9y ago
To be fair there were other distros with good installers, where Ubuntu shone was with drivers and non free packages. Though I seem to remember installing scripts to install mp3 decoders, dvd readers and flash plugins all in one go.