30 years ago, there was no “just works” option. Windows was at WfW 3.11 / NT 3 , so you had to choose between being “entertained” by Windows driver issues and c

30 years ago, there was no “just works” option. Windows was at WfW 3.11 / NT 3 , so you had to choose between being “entertained” by Windows driver issues and crashes (which you could hardly do anything about), or Linux (which you could!) When Win95 came with Plug and Play, it still took a few years to go from “Plug and Pray” to “Plug and Play”. It’s only with 2000/XP that windows got to the “just works” stage. Nowadays, everything just works, so the choice to deal with driver issues is a deliberate choice, not a “lesser evil” one.