Ah, right.
Actually someone did give me a Linux box a few months ago, but nobody could make it work. I switched it on, found some widget in the GUI (after a bit of searching, but fair enough given that I was new to it) to set the screen resolution to match my monitor.
Next day when I switched the box back on it had forgotten the screen resolution. A few days of assistance by IT bods, including the traditional logging in as root and hand editing several configuration files full of gobbledegook, didn't make any difference.
So I asked for another Windows box instead, so that I could actually do some work, and the Linux box remains disconnected and switched off under my desk. The Windows box just worked.
So, not every example of someone pasting something over the cracks of Linux to give you a better user experience than editing vast reams of gobbledegook actually works. Nice to hear that "automount" works better than the example I came across.