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Some people - even technologically literate ones - just want computers and operating systems to work straight out of the box with no building or tinkering and there's nothing wrong with that.
that kind of thinking will get you burned at the stake before the temple of the holy Linux, his son self-hosting, and the spirit, FOSS.
Part of me would quite like to fuck around installing Linux and creating a home NAS.
I used to tinker for hours on our family pc back in the 90s and 00s trying to optimise it/make it work.
But now? The other, bigger part simply cant be arsed. Windows 11 just works. It does what I need it to do.
The bigger Linux distros have all "just worked" for the better part of two decades
Do they come pre-installed on machines ready to be used out of the box?
Yes
That's awesome, this would make me use Linux.
Not for me haha.
I'm happy on Ubuntu, but I've had my share of weird bugs and ux issues. And they do a pretty good job.
If I was on Ubuntu and never configured anything or installed any software, I'd have a slightly better track record.
But it also has some extra features like surveillance I don't want it to do
I thought I'd finally found the perfect balance between minimal tinkering and the features I want with Noctalia Shell. Then I switched to a systemd-free distro and it doesn't work any more. Back to .config I go.