Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "What Are The Hardest Linux Distros? (It's Not The Ones You Think!)" video.

  1. I disagree with the ranking. Yeah, if you know already what to expect, what do you have to do, it is easy. But, in some cases, let's take Gentoo, you do have to learn quite some things for it to work. And as nice as the wiki is, there's still things that you kind of need to know before hand, otherwise you'll be in for a bad time. Like someone mentioned, when it breaks... well, it's not so easy anymore, now, is it ? And just the amount of what you need to learn, what packages do what, what an OS requires in general and so on, there's a lot to learn. That's objectively difficult. Of course, there is such a thing as something being difficult no matter how much you know. I'd say that it doesn't apply here almost at all. Everything related to installing and maintaing an OS is knowledge based. There's no realtime dexterity or attention/observation/perception contest where if you do not act in less than 1 second to an event you lose. Back to the Gentoo example. I can bet you that more than 99% of people who a) didn't used Linux before or know that much about it and b) are not developers, now these people, if you would task them to install Gentoo (as their first Linux install) I bet you that more than 99% won't be able to do it in less than 24 hours. On a computer where compiling everything needed takes less than 4 hours. They'll have A LOT to learn. Well, maybe some may be able to do it faster, if they skip on the documentation, and happen that the code examples all work. If you take out the "time to learn" parameter from the equation, most things in life become easy.
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