Not by me, thank God! No, the five years of Rasp Pi maso-tinkering were done by Thorin Klowsowski. His report appears here:
http://lifehacker.com/what-i-ve-learned-from-tinkering-with-the-raspberry-pi-1793236686
In the second and third paragraph, he confirmed all my suspicions:
The Raspberry Pi is far, far away from being as user friendly as a PC or Mac. That’s a feature, not a bug… Before hobbyists latched onto the Raspberry Pi, it was a computer for learning how to code targeted mainly at kids. Since then, the appeal has broadened, but it’s still impossible for a project to “just work” out of the box. You will have to tweak something, dig into the command line, or spend a few hours buried in an obscure internet forum to find solutions to problems that only you seem to be having. You will slam your head against the wall, yell a little, and throw your Raspberry Pi at least once for every project you attempt to make.
I told you so.
If you’re interested, the Pi just became the 3rd biggest selling general purpose computer, just passing the Commodore 64. https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-sales/ The Commodore C64 took 11 years to sell 12.5 million units. Pi (cumulatively all models, but 3B is already 30% of the total) did it in about 5 (Spring 2012 to Spring 2017). Yeah, they fudge a tiny bit by combining models, but… it’s still an AMAZING feat.