In the 90s, it was hard :-)

It made sense to recompile the kernel to make it fit your hardware.

It was a mess to find peripherals that were working with Linux.

Not sure about those numbers: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances

Wasn’t there some discussions earlier about the fact that government funding was less than 1% of what’s needed to run NPR ?

Lol. How to explain without explaining 101.

Being average does not mean that there is no room to explain stuff…

Define average person.