The Arduino Linux installation was very strait forward.
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Don't forget SuSE Linux from the 90s, they had decent handbooks with their CDs, too.
Not exactly. I couldn't find the cover on google (it's probably too old). I'll try to take a pic of it when I'm back at home.
That's the one they handed me as an undergrad with a Silicon Graphics computer for molecular modeling.
That was back when Linux was still hard. If you're going back to that time then I wholeheartedly agree with @UKHeliBob about it.
But these days Ubuntu or Mint are just about as easy to use as Windows for the normal stuff. And once you get out into the fringes it's a lot easier to make Linux do what you want while Windows is still telling you that it thinks you don't know what you're doing.
It's not using Linux that I have a beef with, it is getting it to a state where you can use it
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I hear you and that is what I mean. I can put a usb drive in a computer, boot up, hit install, choose a drive and keyboard layout and timezone, and pretty much be done. Printer is automatic. WiFi just needs a password. Most of my apps either install as app image or directly from apt. I run a plex server and that takes two lines. I usually install ffmpeg and restricted extras for video, but it's not like Windows doesn't need some software installed when it is new. None of those things take more than a click or two or one or two well documented commands in the terminal.
It really isn't as hard as it used to be.
I am sure that it isn't, but anything that requires one or two commands in the terminal is going to put people off that are used to Windows
I thought that the whole point of a GUI interface was that it was GUI. As I said earlier in this topic, when I wanted to install a particular program in Linux I did it and it certainly needed more than a couple of terminal commands, but why in this day and age ?
That's why I stopped using M$ decades ago: it was getting harder and harder to bring it in a useful state.