That wasn't really a problem even a bit over a decade earlier when I started looking into switching things up. You look what is popular, you install ubuntu, it

That wasn't really a problem even a bit over a decade earlier when I started looking into switching things up. You look what is popular, you install ubuntu, it goes to usb stick which you insert in computer -> click next until you're on desktop. Nothing special. I think the really annoying parts were more related to nothing being quite perfect; things tearing, having iffy support for mixed resolution and refresh rates, sometimes browser not using hw acceleration and fans spinning up. Everything you could live with, but dealing papercuts.