Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025

This is the exact arrogance I speak of.

If installing linux was just a 'skill issue', then why the fuck are you happy about only 4% desktop adoption rates?

And why the fuck is every forum post like this filled with replies like mine about how frustrating it is to get setup?

I was 16 and I wasn’t computer-savvy. It was 12 years ago

Shit son, I have still functioning keyboards older than you.

Give me a specific example. And of the tone of your question too - a community is not a drop-in replacement for paid support

Ok, so I was trying to get a TWAIN emulator working to talk to my all-in-one printer, printing worked fine (after 3 days of tinkering with CUPS because my specific model didn't have an existing profile and fuck if I know about how to write one myself) but I needed the scanner and I asked in the forum for the particular emulator, I asked in several generic Ubuntu forums (the distro I was trying at the time).

The first reply was a just a link to the product's manual, which I had already read.

The next two replies were in the vein of 'How stupid of you to try and use TWAIN under linux, use a native device driver (again of which none existed for my device, which was clearly detailed in my original post)

The fourth reply can best be summed up as 'lol windows problems'.

And then the post was locked as a repeat topic and linked me back to some chucklefuck's 5 year old post about setting up a scanner with native linux drivers.

That is just one example of multiple dozens of issues I've tried at least to get directions towards a solution.

And not even the most frustrating one.