Until very recently, I had neon colored hair. Pink, blue, green, orange, purple, red; the whole rainbow. Changed it once every few months.

Women very frequently came up to me to compliment my hair and often would lead to conversations about where I got my dye, who did it, etc. like women stopping their cars in parking lots just to give me a compliment. More often than not it turned into a short convo, that usually ended around the time I mentioned my wife was the artist who did my hair.

Had I known this was a thing before I was married, I would have died my hair in a heartbeat.

I think it may have been a little disarming and was something unique enough that it was worth striking up a convo.

If you’re installing it on win 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux, then you’re installing it within windows which is not the same.

The permissions issues you encountered would likely have been due to you accessing features managed by windows. I guess it’s possible you ran some commands you shouldn’t have, but it would be just as easy to break a windows build if you’re running random commands you don’t understand as Administrator.

You can install ubuntu (or any other linux distro) on a usb, reboot your computer, probably mess with some bios boot-order settings, and try out an actual linux OS (and its installer), not one managed by windows. I think the bios settings are likely the biggest hangup. But I also doubt the majority of people who can’t install Linux could install Windows.

As per driver compatibility, there’s a good chance your issues were related again to WSL, which on win10 doesn’t seem to support cuda. I barely used WSL, but I remember not having direct gpu access, completely negating the point of me upgrading to pro and allowing me to get permission from work to wipe windows.

Anyways, I think what a lot of windows users don’t realize is how much time and energy they spent learning how to use windows and get around this or that and all the wasted hours spent troubleshooting something. So I do understand not wanting to do that all over again. But if OSX, android, and chromebooks can be turn key for your average user, I don’t think there’s anything stopping them from adapting to “Linux”.