Originally Posted by
PDR1
Again, for the overwhelming majority this is not what they experience.
Tell that to all the people whose scanners stopped working when Microsoft disabled them in a compulsory update. Or my Windows 7 PC where 'Windows Update' started permanently sucking up the whole of one core to do... some kind of stuff... until I downloaded a magic fix from Microsoft to make it work properly again.
I'm constantly being asked to help people fix their broken Windows PCs. Fortunately, since I mostly use Linux these days, I can just tell most of them 'sorry, I don't know about Windows'.
In my experience even the so-called "non-geek" distros often require "under the hood" knowledge to either install or keep running.
Weird. I put an M.2 SSD into my laptop to replace the hard drive, put the Ubuntu DVD in the DVD drive, booted up, clicked 'install' and it was done in half an hour.