Twice a year (after finals each semester) I would make a ritual of spending a day or two trying to install and use linux because I believed in what they were trying to do (also, package manager!). Every single time, without fail, within those first couple days I hit some sort of show-stopping bug. Sometimes the installer wouldn&#x27;t work and I&#x27;d spend that time cycling through different disk tools &#x2F; CDR drives &#x2F; images. Sometimes the installer would run but repeatedly lock up at a certain step. Some times it would corrupt the partition map and never boot into the new install. Some times the installed OS would freeze on boot. Some times it would boot but I could only use external keyboard and mice. Some times linux came up but wifi, sound, or sleep were broken. Or the screen was locked at full or zero brightness. Or the UI was dirt slow because the graphics drivers were crap. Or... the list goes on. I&#x27;d find threads in forums filled with dozens of people with the same issue, trying increasingly desperate measures to work around them, almost never with any sort of success or even conclusion.<p>I never managed to get a non-VM linux install fully functioning. Once I graduated the end-of-semester ritual faded into the past and I stopped trying. I&#x27;ve recently had good experiences with bootable USB images, maybe I should give it another chance one of these days.<p>&gt; KDE circa 2003. It was as pretty or prettier than OS X<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;K_Desktop_Environment_3#&#x2F;media&#x2F;File:KDE35desktop.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;K_Desktop_Environment_3#&#x2F;media...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.guidebookgallery.org&#x2F;pics&#x2F;gui&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;full&#x2F;macosx103-1-1.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.guidebookgallery.org&#x2F;pics&#x2F;gui&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;full&#x2F;macosx...</a><p>I can&#x27;t say I agree, but I&#x27;d still have used it if I could have gotten it working.