roberth Wrote:True, but google would have turned up answers to 90% of those issues in seconds, and probably all rather quickly

Drivers would be extremely problematic.  And setting up more than you need to isn't exactly entertaining either.  Googling the question might take seconds, but reading through the articles, as well as the junk articles, then searching & reading articles to explain what the articles say ("what's WINE???  repository???"), can take well over seconds...