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  • In my experience most of them are pretty easy to set up with basic computer skills and a look at the documentation. There are two big problems with that though.

    1. Basic computer skills aren’t as common as you would think.

    2. FOSS documentation isn’t written for people without those skills.

    That leads to a lot of issues that aren’t terribly complicated to solve but would be showstoppers for regular users. I would not consider myself a high level user but I’ve managed to get quite a few applications up and running with nothing but time and a willingness to be frustrated. The few people I’ve gone into details with about those applications had no clue what I was talking about. Mostly because they would never tolerate the frustration required to get past the initial setup and have therefore never learned how to do any of it.