Step 1. Find guide on where to find guides for linux distro
Step 2. Read guide on how to find guide for X Linux distro
Step 3. Read guide on X Linux distro
Step 4. Install X Linux Distro
Step 5. ???
Step 6. Find out Linux distro doesn't have Y feature
Step 7. Repeat 1 to 6 indefinitely through the universe of NIH syndrome filled Linux
I wanted to paint the walls of my apartment but could only find a guide for other apartments, so I torched the whole place and moved into another building with the right colored walls, but now my nice kitchen is gone.
Why should I waste my time on any of it when there are two other perfectly good operating systems that can do this out of the box and don't require me to faf around for hours.
> different mix of pre-installed packages
Like it matters.
> Why should I waste my time on any of it when there are two other perfectly good operating systems that can do this out of the box
Same argument for why I don't like to use windows. It comes with basically nothing out of the box, still has no proper package management and basic things like proper keyboard layouts, ctrlcaps, installing latex, browsers, email clients, text editors etc. take hours of faffing around. And then when things invariably don't quite work, troubleshooting is really annoyingly opaque. Why would I waste my time on that?