Right, doesn’t take time.

Except for the crap that doesn’t work out of the gate, like my 10 year old Logitech mouse or my new one).

Or SMB that retains your creds even though you didn’t check the box, and when I spent an hour searching for why, found there was no why but I have to use a command line to clear those creds.

Come on, don’t be disingenuous. No, more accurately, don’t lie. The statement made in this post is a blatant lie. As someone who uses Linux every day, and first started tinkering with it about 2006, I can attest to the time it’s taken to do some basic things. Like get any remote control app to work - where you have to edit config files (and know whether it uses spaces or tabs for delineation, and that maybe this app considers the last entry to be definitive)… In the twenty-first century.

I use Proxmox and Unraid every day. Don’t get me started on the terrible design choices in Proxmox. One thing is in the gui, though the gui doesn’t show it accurately, so you gotta use command line to see the detail, but the layout is… Command line, so seeing config info quickly just ain’t gonna happen.

On and on.

Linux is fantastic, but let’s stop this nonsense arguing that it takes no effort. I’ve spent more time on one machine recently, just getting installed, then I have on my last 20 windows installs (I do a lot of machine building and testing, not unusual to install Windows 2 or 3 times in a day). In fact, that particular machine still isn’t fully up - and it was running Debian for a couple months last year so I know it’s compatible and runs everything fine.

With Windows I boot the thumb drive, pick the OS, answer 15 questions, and walk away. Come back in 45 minutes and Windows is waiting for me. Linus I get to answer just as many questions, but it may/may not install completely. Or my wifi card won’t be there, or another driver.