Yeah, this feels like a survivorship bias fallacy (cf. the famous diagram of where surviving airplanes had bullet holes and the fact you need to reinforce all t

Yeah, this feels like a survivorship bias fallacy (cf. the famous diagram of where surviving airplanes had bullet holes and the fact you need to reinforce all the other spots, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_milit...). If you invert the causality, the argument seems correct: anyone who is inclined to learn how to use the shell, find and install packages from the command line, try out a tiling window manager, and compile a program from source will have a good time on Linux.