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I think Gentoo back in 2005. I left my laptop compiling OpenOffice while I went to class for the day. When I came home the laptop was off, so I had to start over. My roommate denied responsibility. The next day the same thing happened! It turns out I hadn't configured the fan correctly - or I guess at all - so the laptop had been overheating leading to emergency CPU halt.
But I've been using Linux since 2002. A lot of distros used to be a lot harder. But it's also hard for me to remember what the struggles were so long ago.
Starting with Suse in 2003, I found things by then already easy enough, and have not noticed any significant change in ease since. I think the hype of how much easier linux has gotten to install and use, is overblown (in significant part thanks to Ubuntu's marketing claims). But then, depends which distros, like you say with "A lot of distros used to be a lot harder.".