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I've tried installing Linux on two computers four times last month, but I haven't been able to for one reason or another. I've already spent an hour debugging simply because I cancelled the installation once at the wrong time (ie. any time after hitting start) and had to go in there and rename shit (??????). If the community really wants us to switch, it needs to iron out all this garbage at the front door. I can only imagine the frustration of getting everything else up and running. Fuck these headaches. I've had a better UX installing Windows, which I did about 10 times last year without a hitch.
If you don't understand or want to learn, then linux isn't for you. You may ask a computer savvy friend to teach you.
It's a non-trivial thing and it requires some skills that many people aren't really trained for.
Let's not reach for the "this guy doesn't want to learn" excuse because that's you shifting the blame on me, and instead focus on the "this experience has been more frustrating than it needs to be as a first step in adopting an OS and growing the user base". If I didn't want to learn, I wouldn't have bothered to look how to fix the USB after simply cancelling the installation. In what world is that normal? That bug has been around for ages. Also, your installer fatally errors out without a clear cause. Not only was it frustrating, but my time and effort were also wasted. So please, at least take the time to understand what I mean...
The way I see it..
If you order pieces from people who are mostly doing carpentry as a passion and make furniture. Sure it's frustrating and you have to put in work. But you can't compare it to buying stuff from IKEA and telling everyone those carpenters need to do more of that.
Right, and I accept that from any other part of the OS that isn't the very first step when trying to use it.