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If only there were a distro as lazy as using an Android device.
Every time I mention this, someone comes along and mentions one or another distro, and then the caveats that keep it from being as lazy as using an Android device.
What exactly do you mean? Like a distro that just works well on a phone? Yeah proper Linux phones aren't quite there yet.
But any of the commonly recommended distros work out of the box on PC at this point, there's less fiddling than with windows at this point in my experience
I think he means, Android runs Linux and doesn't/can't be tweaked for the most part. Because you don't have root. So yes it's opposite of what most Linux users seek, but it sure seems to be stable for years. So you can be lazy "admin'ing" it
Things have gotten MUCH better than they ever have been.
But unfortunately, it is still not as easy as just using an android phone.
But then again, it's a hard metric to judge by, because while some things are harder than they should be on Linux, other things are just.. Different, than what people are used to (Windows, Mac).
I use Linux, I use Android, but I still get frustrated when I need to use my wife's iPhone for pretty much anything, because I've never owned one and I never use it. Does that mean iPhone is inherently bad design? Many people would argue no, it's a good design in most cases. Just different. You've gotta learn the different ways of doing what you need to do. Although iPhone definitely has a few design flaws, in my opinion.
Likewise with Linux. Many modern distros are very user friendly. But no matter how good it is, people will always struggle when starting for the first time, because many things are just plain different. And also there are design holes/flaws.
You can say the same thing about any modern operating system you aren't familiar with.
My sister in law has a MacBook, and every time I need to use it, which is maybe once or twice a year, I struggle. Things aren't where I expect them to be. Things don't work the way I expect. Heck, some "standard" keyboard shortcuts are different. Does that mean it's a bad operating system? No, I just need to put the time and effort in to learn it, if I wanted to use it daily.
Linux has come a long way, and gets a bad rap. Yes it has a learning curve, and it might be more difficult because of all the different distros, but it's pretty similar to everything else.