Seemed idiot proof already a couple years before 2005 in my experience. I hear for years prior already too. Rumours of Linux’s difficulty have been grossly exaggerated, like in the OP image.

… And reading the EULA for Windows may be non-idiot preventative. But who ever reads what that says. … I did, when I had read the GNU GPL. The difference… it’s worth the read… to experience that vivid constrast awareness, with one offering freedom, the other with it’s deal with the devil clause, that they can change the agreement after they make it, and do all manner of nasty to you. GPL’s easier to read only a few thousand words, compared to the proprietary license etc that are probably something like thousands of pages in their entirety. The BSD licenses are an even easier read. The WTFPL even shorter yet. Freedom’s brevity not trying to hide something nasty in either the license nor the software… unlike the scary stuff one can find hidden in proprietary software. ~ Anyhoo, I’ll stop rambling on your comment. It just sprang to mind.