@teto @dcc @SuperSnekFriend You are right, but IMO the guys working on Linux desktop rn (mostly freedesktop.org) guys try to sorta dumb Linux down by restricting what the user can do and whatnot. Normies do a lot more with computers than you might expect. Photographers except to be able to open an image in Photoshop straight from Lightroom for example. There's also OLE linking inside Microsoft Office. And yes I know these problems may get a fix one day, but the solution is usually less than ideal when compared to other platforms. I haven't used Flatpak in a long time but I suspect you need to grant permission to a certain application to access your external drive in a control panel somewhere, on Windows however most if not all applications can just access your external drive right away. Yes I know this is for security or whatever the hell they claim, but this isn't 2008 anymore, people rarely download random toolbars from the Internet anymore. And at the end of the day, normies only know so much about computers. Windows Vista got a bad reputation not because of Windows Vista but mostly due to third-party software or drivers written for it. If you have to explain to a new user that something something goes wrong because of something called "display manager" or something like "package manager" and it's the fault of those things instead, I consider this a failure in usability.