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Just install it and not have to care about anything system related. Just keep out of my way and let me do what I need to do. Linux, Windows, MacOS, the operating system should not be an end, but a mean.
If you need to update, just do it and don't bother me. I plug something, just show it to me. Something is proprietary? I don't care, just want it to work...
Kinda hard when noone can make it work or even know how it works besides creators of that propietary program.
Did you try out the immutable Linux systems (Fedora Silverblue / openSUSE Aeon)?
They look very promising, do updates in the background (So, you are one reboot away from updates instead of waiting for the package manager.)
Windows for you chap /s
For me and everybody else by a long margin. So this is a post where we can say what we expect from a Linux desktop so you can point us to Windows?
Ah, I mentioned it specifically mentioned that they are OS agnostic. Also, what he/she said sounded a lot like Windows, especially because vendors create a lot of software for Windows.
I'm a big proponent of Linux/*nix (BSD), and the previous comment was meant as a sort of joke, but I suppose I should have added the
/s