Yeah I use Debian. (At least once a while when I decide to give it yet another shot…)

Edit: in case you are interested, I can give some extra details on that list, and how I fixed them or not. But all these fixes ain’t a thing I’d expect the median user to be able to figure.

Make it just run and pre install it on most computers.

With “just run” I mean things like:

• Audio just working
• Bluetooth just working
• Bluetooth and audio working together (I still can’t get this one right, after 5 evenings of trying)
• WiFi supporting all the frequencies, instead of just some
• remembering monitor configurations
• Troubleshooting audio shouldn’t mean that you almost completely kill your OS with that

You know, things like that that might cost you an evening or two or three to figure and make you feel like you’re the rarest edge case alive. On Windows, these work just fine out of the box.

I know this ain’t easy to get to, but I can’t recommend people to use Linux when even a phones does perfectly fine out of the box results in at least an evening of troubleshooting.

Yeah, it took me way too long to get Debian running on my pc, because for some reason the website assumed that everyone would have a Linux to install Debain with. I haven’t had that, and that one tool they had didn’t work.