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I get your point, but I still haven't gotten over the trauma from the time I installed openSUSE on my desktop as a teenager because Windows Vista had gotten too slow for me and I'd seen some people talking about Linux online.
Somehow, the bug I ended up encountering on this distro was the worst thing imaginable: the inability to download anything, ever again. So even when I found solutions for it on obscure forums... I was unable to download any tools to actually use to rectify this problem.
My computer was a brick for 3 years.
This was a long time ago, and I've graduated with a degree in CompSci since then. However, I'll never forget the one Linux/Unix course I took, where the final was to blindly install a Linux OS onto the machine.
I had issues with 5/6 of them.
I remember briefly asking the professor for guidance, worried I was gonna fail... and he confessed to me that he'd never actually done it before, so he didn't really understand why they weren't working.
The professor of the university level course.
So yeah, my days of tinkering with Linux are over. I'm happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Linux is the most nightmarish OS for a layman user of all time lol
on obscure forums like youtube?
seriously, I can't imagine how could that happen. it sounds like you could log in to the desktop, probably the browser was working too.
Yeah I can't imagine what he's talking about, also why he couldn't just boot from the Windows disc and reinstall Windows