I spent much of yesterday getting Debian to work on my old MacBook.

In theory it's relatively straightforward, but there are so many little niggles and roadblocks that it really sours the experience.

I set up a user account upon install, as it asked me to, but when I tried to do something with sudo it just kept telling me that I wasn't in the Sudoers group. Mine is the only account on the machine, why isn't that set up by default? So I searched for a solution, which appears to have a bunch of different ways to do it, but none of them quite worked, or worked first time. The first few solutions involved using the terminal, but in the end it was easier to open the document in the file manager and edit it as a root user. Linux users are hard for using a terminal when they could just open a document in a text editor.

In the end I got everything set up how I wanted, but it probably shouldn't have taken a whole day of irritation.