I feel like a pretty decent metric for the user-friendliness of a Linux distro would be:

• can you install the distro from scratch and play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?
• after 6 months, can you update all of the software and still play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?

at least one of these tests would fail if any of my most common issues with Linux happened:

• display problems
• video card driver problems
• wifi problems
• audio problems
• problems during installation
• DE problems
• updates breaking things

@kasdeya The "six month test" is a good one to be honest. It's great if things work out of the box, but if it withstands half a year of software, updates and general crud too that's even better!

@kasdeya Unfortunately it always seems like at least one of these is a compromise for the other. At best we can minimize each of these by having a little bit of them all.

@foxysen oohh that’s amazing! I definitely want to try Mint once I have the energy to install it on my laptop - or once Arch annoys me enough that I install it anyway lol