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As a privacy concerned individual who is more tech savvy than some (but by no means a technologist or even a dev) - NO. no freakin' way man. I tried to do a dua

As a privacy concerned individual who is more tech savvy than some (but by no means a technologist or even a dev) - NO. no freakin' way man. I tried to do a dual boot WIN/Linux setup once. What a shitshow - took me hours, multiple attempts, drivers not working, weird quirks trying to get peripherals to work, games not working. Recalling it now makes me angry all over again. 90% of this planet is not capable, nor will ever be capable, of dealing with something that is not a fully fledged, 'stable' mainstream OS, either Windows or Mac OS. That's not good, it's not bad - it just...is. Better get used to it, or come up with a better strategy for changing it.

crispinb 7y ago
This is unfortunate but entirely true. I'm a software developer and though absolutely not a Linux expert of any kind, nevertheless very far from being a computer novice. But this is kind of my experience with Linux. I keep logs of configuration & software difficulties I have with OSs. My Linux one for this month is longer than my Windows & OSX ones for the past decade combined. And I'm writing here as (currently) a Linux user - it's the main OS on my work laptop because the things I like about it (stellar performance, notably from the filesystem, fantastic developer tooling) are more important to me than the difficult things. But the difficulties are numberless, and I accept that many things I take for granted on Windows or OSX just will never work well. Most of them could work, but I'll never have time to track down & absorb all the Arch wiki, SO & manpage resources I'd need to sort them out.