A Linux Evening
This is prototypical of the standard Linux experience, but I&#x27;d like to remark on just how much less common this sort of thing is.   Modern Linux and modern Linux distributions have a much larger &quot;just work&quot; factor and it&#x27;s getting better every year in my experience.   Slowly and asymptotically, but it is improvement.<p>This was driven home recently by my experience switching to NixOS.   NixOS is brilliant in many ways, but boy are there papercuts everywhere.   It&#x27;s all soluble but it is annoying.   25 years ago this sort of fiddling was fun, but now it&#x27;s just tedious.