content: I disagree.  Most people do not rice when they first start using Linux (except those using linux for the ricing).  For distros like mint and ubuntu its push button receive bacon in most cases. There are people who dont even rice.  Usb wi-fi is a pain and some bluetooth.  Its not the 90s or even 2005.  Things have gotten much better on the installs for common hardware. I have been using linux for 10+ years, have run slackware difficulty to mint difficulty. Mint just runs (even on a shiny new samsung ssd m.2 drive that i somehow messed up and cannot fix the block size, but most users wont do dumb crap like I did by accident because they wont be messing with xen or linux from scratch).