Club Linux Coffs Harbour

While addressing the question of "how to get started in Linux", Andrew Cowie offers this graph, which I think is bang on the money, of ease of installation versus ease of subsequent upgrading for a number of popular free operating systems. (Ease of upgrading is not considered so important in non-free operating systems since users of these systems routinely wipe their hard drives and reinstall from scratch every six to twelve months to rid their computers of bloat and malware.) For a very long time these two qualities were present in any one OS in inverse proportion, so it's hardly surprising that any system that bucks this unwritten law should receive a lot of attention.