i disagree. linux is a learning experience in itself. just don't tell people to fdisk disk alone right from the beginning. but that's the beauty of rolling distros. help them once and mostly forget :)
you accept software is not eternal and bugs are there. instead of accepting blue screens/spinning beachball/etc as facts of life, you understand they are like idiot lights on your car dashboard. instead of ignoring you take your car to a mechanic, who will tell you something obvious had you read the manual.
Linux is the same. you see a crash, you message the friend who told you to use Linux or google the error. yeah, it's annoying, but only if you live in neverland were comercial software have no bugs.
and again, ubuntu/rh/etc does nothing but try to push this lie to opensource.
the good old "it's easier to pirate" issue as usual.
sometimes being a paying customer is undesirable for the company so you just get bad service. it's the same with media if you don't want to just consume the latest mass distributed garbage.
you obviously won't get sued for running old software at your home. so why bother having more trouble to pay when you're clearly not a desired customer.
it's like entering a store and insisting to pay for the free samples and annoying everyone.
everyone can download windows 11 today, install, and never even activate.
you will see "not activated" or something on the bottom right. and you cannot change theme (you can still change it before you go online the first time, or via registry)
this is like comparing chrome and other browsers, even chromium based.
chrome and github will employ all tricks in the book, even if they screw you. for example, how many hours of despair I've wasted when manually dissecting a git history on employer github by opening merge diffs, hitting ctrl F, seeing no results and moving to the next... only to find on the 100th diff that deep down the diff lost they hid the most important file because it was more convenient for them (so one team lead could hit some page load metric and get a promotion)
meh. not as bad as being embedded in being the only alternative to college access is most communities. but gaming might affet lower middle class families. oh the horror.
ah, RH and docker and their race to poke out of emulation/virtualization for fringe performance gains.
we will soon get to a point qemu will just be a job manager for software that plugs directly into local syscalls, like, you know, regular software running on your system.