I can understand his reasoning in some way. I liked to play around with compiling kernel and install stuff from source to get a very personalised experience.

I can understand his reasoning in some way. I liked to play around with compiling kernel and install stuff from source to get a very personalised experience. Now I just want to be an end user and have an OS which I install and majority of things work right out of the box, or at least they are easy to configure. So I can concentrate on other things. A lot of times there is something that is missing from the UI and you have to dive deep just to have it fixed. Editing config files etc... Even just simple things as a touchpad sensitivity. Not to mention some special stuff like handling a discrete GPU in a gaming laptop. I want a distro that works well and has most of the configuration accessible in the UI so I don't have to hunt the internet for information about how to fix something on a particular distro with a particular version. Ubuntu comes close to this dream, but not close enough.