The argument of "you have to put a non-trivial amount of time into setting any OS up, so you might as well use X" is so disingenuous. It's easy to forget the da

The argument of "you have to put a non-trivial amount of time into setting any OS up, so you might as well use X" is so disingenuous. It's easy to forget the day to day conveniences when you are using windows or osx every day for a few years. If you could accurately sum up the time spent fiddling with your nix desktop OS over the lifetime of the install, the "area under the curve" so to speak, windows and osx are going to absolutely blow any nix distro out of the water. It is parasitic and insidious how many things don't "just work". You will invariably end up wasting much of your life getting software, printers, scanners, webcams, monitors, or whatever to work the way you want with your nix distro. And even when it does "work" it's not going to be as good as a real desktop OS. I ran freeBSD on my Toshiba Satellite 1905-s301 for 4 years before getting a MBP and I have zero temptation to go back.