I don’t need to know everything about an engine, but I have basic competency in changing my oil or replacing my air filter.

I don’t know everything about the structure of my home, but I know enough to install some shelves or blinds.

Great! So just like someone who knows how to install and remove software and update their system. The kind of thing they can do with Windows.

I work in IT and switched to Linux a few months ago because of Microsoft's latest moves. People saying that it's ready for every day use are out of their minds. I had nothing but problems with Manjaro, but I'm having a better experience on Kubuntu LTS. Now both of my monitors turn on every time! But sure, an every day person should contribute to the nouveau drivers to make Linux work with their specific monitor setup. A monitor setup that just works with Windows.

You're absolutely right about closed systems spying on you. That should be illegal. But to expect everyone to run Linux as it is today is patently ridiculous. I decided not to move my wife's laptop to Windows because I knew there'd be problems constantly that I didn't want to deal with.

I guess it would be better if Farmers were reading man pages to figure out why they bricked their system when trying to install new graphics drivers. Or figure out why they no longer can get to a desktop after installing graphics drivers only to find out that the compilation of the drivers failed completely silently which put their system into a state where they had to boot from a usb drive and rebuild their system.