Oh right, I was stupid, I see it now.

I don’t get it…

Or could it be that it might bother them but they just keep quiet and put up with it, assume that it’s part of owning a computer and feel powerless to change anything?

Admittedly I do have the bias of experience which could blind me to the difficulties, when I phrased my first two sentences as questions they were genuine questions. Between work and personal life I must’ve installed Linux in some form at least 200 times over the last 20 years, so I’m not most users.

I’ve also not used Windows in many years, the last I think was when I had to use Windows 7 for work about 10 years ago and I found it extremely difficult to get it to do what I want. If it’s improved then it’s improved.

On the other hand a novice user can ask somebody to install Linux for them, what about that? That’s what my non-techy parents have done, and it’s easier for them to use Linux (they say so) and easier for me to provide technical support for them.

Also yes, avoid Nvidia.

How many times have you setup Fedora or any other Linux distribution and have every single thing working from the get go?

I’m talking drivers, audio, networking, libraries, DNF, repositories, plugins, runtime dependencies, …

Is proprietary software any easier than that though? Don’t you have to put in much more time removing all the spyware and bloat they put in and then spend all your time perpetually fighting against forced updates and applications being installed without your permission?

Whereas with Fedora my experience is more or less install it and forget it.

The “it’s easier” argument for proprietary software I think died at least 15 years ago.

Choice of applications is a different argument.

Missed out OpenTTD, that’s my go-to game these days.

I’m only going by what the website says, if I click “how to install”: https://wavemaker.co.uk/blog/how-to-install-a-pwa/ there’s no mention here of it working with Firefox or relevant instructions (same as in the FAQ), and if I go to https://wavemaker.cards/ there’s no obvious way of installing it and it’s heavily promoting Google Drive.

I’m also not sure it’s FOSS, this page makes reference to “Open sourcing the code for the older versions” which seems half-hearted at best and I’ve not found any code yet.

Even if I’m wrong about all of the above I’m still put-off by the Google-centric focus of it all.

I can’t imagine wanting to write a book on my phone though.

Requires Google Chrome, Google Drive? No thanks…

That would be quite the epiphany.