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Just works is definitely something Linux should strive for, but at least in my experience and in experience of my friends, "just works" has always been a poor experience.
What I'm talking about is how you install a just works distro like mint or garuda, and then some package refuses to work or maybe hardware such as a sound card or multi monitor setup, so you gotta go troubleshooting, which isn't very "just works". What's worse is that some of the issues aren't talked about/documented, so you pretty much have to rely on making a post and wait for potentially hours for a response to get help. It's also very hard to troubleshoot the system by yourself if you don't have experience, as you don't really know what's running under the hood as in what came prepackaged by the distro.