Not my experience. I tried to install on an old Asus Eee and everything worked on first try.

There's a web browser (Web Positive) that works good enough given the available resources on this machine.

The system itself runs very nicely on this hardware. I tried to install Linux there first but I wasn't able to find any 32 but distro with GUI that would fit on 4GB eMMC.

Now I have a neat small machine that supports what I need from it and I'm thinking of putting it on some more powerful HW.