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That's it though, it very often does just work.

Without vendor support and with barely any investment from manufacturers, the Linux community is still pushing on to get things to a point where your dog could install it.

Your experience is an anomaly they're trying hard to eradicate.




I understand that, and have tried again nearly every year for the past 15, using the most "user friendly" distro I can find each time.


I don't mean to say that there aren't problems, just that they are fewer today than ever before.

It only takes a particularly new graphics card, or certain wireless chipset to give even battle-hardened users a novel and painful experience.




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