Free software documentation is usually pretty good, and installing SW on just about any Linux distro is very smooth. Uninstalling is just as smooth. As for the

Free software documentation is usually pretty good, and installing SW on just about any Linux distro is very smooth. Uninstalling is just as smooth. As for the ugliness, one could also say they a given UI is "time tested" (eg Gimp, Gnumeric). Unfortunately a number of projects feel they have to change their UI as often as commercial SW (Firefox, Evince, Ubuntu). I would certainly prefer they remain away from that temptation and remain "ugly". Some people favor efficiency above all.