Comment by senko
Yeah agree completely. Started with Slack at around 2.x, took a long time to switch to Debian and occasionally Ubuntu.
That was when you compiled your own kernel and installed software by running ./configure && make && make install
Normies fleeing Windows dumpster fire today won't do that.
Yeah, likely not. There are all kinds of shaes of gray in between that and windows style OS instalation, though.
Arch Linux just sits somewhere in the middle, where you don't build anything, but you get a guided tour of partitioning and formatting a disk, installing some set of packages and setting up a bootloader, from a fairly rich adn comfortable command line environment of a USB live distro.