less hard than running debian or redhat back in the 90s

Zoomers will never know the pain… and the joy and actually getting it installed!

I remember installing Debian before Ubuntu was born using an ncurses type interface and spending five minutes selecting the packages I want to install, (only for it to tell me that one package was incompatible with another and the installation couldn’t proceed!) but being able to do it somewhat graphically made it so much easier than simply by text.

An OS stays out of your way and lets you do what you need to do. Having to essentially create the basics is unproductive and a waste of the user’s time.

I’m pretty sure “Power users” don’t use Ubuntu.