| > Installing Nvidia drivers is hit or miss. That's why I've specified it as for non-gamers. I have an old built-in Intel graphics controller (the same as on the old MacBook Air model that still has F-keys) and have no problems. Nevertheless I have indeed always been highlighting graphics drivers quality as a permanent problem, nobody ever writes really good ones, even Windows drivers are quirky and Linux drivers are always full of problems in every single version (yet it rarely is too hard to set up a configuration working nicely and forget about that if 3D graphics is not among your primary computer usage tasks). > Wifi often doesn't work out of the box. On MacBook only. According to my experience it has always been working out of the box on non-Apple PCs for about 7 years already. > The touchpad experience is far inferior. According to my experience exactly the opposite. But I haven't used PCs with multitouch touchpads so it's probable you're right. > Also all of the desktop environments I've used have been really ugly (GNOME, KDE, Unity). As for me and whom I've shown it Unity and today KDE5 (as shipped with Manjaro) look great (old KDEs looked ugly, I agree). And the look can be customized to whatever you may desire. > Even when installing Linux there are so many options for partitioning (what format you want, swap space size, etc) which are likely overwhelming for non technical users. It's exactly the same as with Windows: either use default partitioning or whatever partitioning you want, the only difference is Linux installers usually allow you to define more complex partitioning without having to use 3-rd party tools like PartitionMagic/Acronis if you want. Anyway, it is always a great idea for a non-geek user to ask a geek friend of theirs to install an OS for them rather than to do it themselves, regardless to what OS they would like to install. |