The thing is, in those ten years the hump's slowly been getting smaller and smaller, every time I reinstall or upgrade there's less and less work to do to get t

The thing is, in those ten years the hump's slowly been getting smaller and smaller, every time I reinstall or upgrade there's less and less work to do to get things up and running, to the point where it's not much different than getting a new windows install going. Install some drivers Install some apps Configure things and set up my ui There's a lot less forum hunting, obscure edge cases you run into, random things not working and all those other problems I remember. Part of it is my experience at this point, but another large part is just the general improvement of the linux ecosystem over those years. It really has improved drastically from my first days using it regularly in 2007-2008 or so.