> The main problem with these "works out the box" distro, there's no "box" to start with. You know, I realized this recently, as I was updating the HW in my de

> The main problem with these "works out the box" distro, there's no "box" to start with. You know, I realized this recently, as I was updating the HW in my desktop PC. After days of trying to figure out why an AMD GPU is power throttling (and thus giving me ~20% of the performance I paid for), I just gave up and installed Windows. It pains me (and honestly, it's a huge pain to set up Windows from scratch as well), but at least the proprietary driver blobs that you can download work as advertised. This really showed me that in my free time, I don't want to futz around with setting up my HW on Linux. I just want to use it. And even though I bought a computer that officially supports Linux (intel nuc extreme), the experience of setting it up is pretty bad even for me, a software engineer who's been using and administering Linux for the past ~15 years at work.