[Article author/submitter here] > the elitism of the BSD world was infuriating back then. You do have a point there. I found it very difficult to try to get

[Article author/submitter here] > the elitism of the BSD world was infuriating back then. You do have a point there. I found it very difficult to try to get FreeBSD up and running well even ~20 years ago, and yes, up to around the Ubuntu era, the BSDs were just a bit too hardcore for me. Linux was hard enough, but one got the feeling that most of them were trying to help, trying to make stuff work and make it easier. (All right, except Debian. There was a strong attitude of elitism in that community, too, and while traces are still there, Ubuntu has taken Debian more mainstream than any other derivative ever did. Stormix, Corel LinuxOS, Lindows, Libranet... all tried but none quite cut it. Ubuntu made Debian easy, and Debian has benefitted a lot from that, IMHO.)