Says Linux is bad but uses a toaster without a license

First inpressions matter. The thing most people want operating systems to do is get out of the way. And while using Linux is great (so long as your software supports it), setting it up is not seamless. If you want to install Linux, new users have to spend 8 hours surfing 20 boards to be told 30 different answers about which distro to use. And that's before you even get started.

If you want to install Windows, you just fucking install Windows.

It's bad to recommend to less tech-literate people. It's bad to force on someone in general.

TBF it does have a glaring lack of automation for way too much of the basics. Even hand holding distros like Mint will have you using the terminal for something windows just does with a double click.

FTR I prefer Linux over Windows but I still lose it every time installation instructions for some app have 4 pages of commands for the CLI instead of just running an installer that automates the BS.

Typical Linux distributions are almost objectively harder to use than Android

So are Windows and macOS.

You do need to worry about whether or not your phone is locked to a specific carrier and if its the carrier you want to use the phone with. or, if its a phone you want to bring to another network, you have to figure our if you need to argue with your current carrier to get it unlocked.

To piggyback off this, Windows is also "harder" than Android. You need to reinstall Windows due to an update fuckup? You tried building your own PC? Well, you either fork.over $120 for an installation media, or you have to create your own, then learn how to boot into the BIOS to boot from that media, then you need to scour the internet for not only your Nvidia driver, but your audio driver, WiFi driver, integrated graphics driver (if you have and want to use an IGPU) and possibly motherboard drivers if your mobo has some odd implementation that requires a driver for USB 3.1 to work properly.

None of these operating systems are "harder" than another. You are just used to one over the other. You don't use your automatic transmission car skills trying to drive a manual transmission, unless your goal is to crash and burn.

Ok. How is that relevant to the post or the comment?

So it's just not true at all, got it lol

How come?

PostmarketOS is an Alpine distro packaged as a mobile OS. Full phat Linux on a smart phone.

No one wants a frozen butthole

Man I have to settle for a purple thing with a hole in it, I don't even know what it is

Android is frustrating with the way it limits you from doing what you want within the os.

And OSX is a BSD but nobody i ntheir right mind would consider it a BSD distro.

Now just need to add this as a Kernel module and ship the binary as the default for a distro.

Yeah, I know that, the manufacturer has already installed the OS etc.

What I want is a warranty and guaranteed manufacturer support, rather than me needing to figure out how to fix it.

with Windows you also pay for the license key, by the way

Your computer's price is often subsidized by the fact that the manufacturer has an agreement with Microslop to preinstall Windows on it.

I'm pretty rough on phones, so they tend to only last a few years for me.

I've had my current one for three or four years, and I think that's a record.