I have never installed windows without issues, infuriating soul crushing reboot a million times while downloading random drivers from fishy sites to get some thing working bs issues.
And now you have a next to useless os, with nothing on it. In linux I have a full dev stack within minutes after installing ansible. In windows, the everlasting shitstorm has now moved from category 4 to 5 forecast to last a week of hunting down and installing disjoint tools and frameworks from a plethora of one-hung-lo holes. Hell no. I'll never work in windows shop again, that shit's cray.
Huh, really? Except for Apple machines, which are pretty much a lost cause, every other machine I've installed Ubuntu on basically just worked after installation.
Did you buy hardware with linux in mind or buy whatever and hope it would work. The former is a valid strategy the latter is more likely to be an interesting experience.
I'm with you on this one, perhaps I just got lucky. Either installs on Apple Hardware or as virtual machines, my linux installs almost always just go and do what I want them to. I think perhaps my use cases are simplistic as most are pretty much just appliance VMs or distros meant for end users (back in the day getting PPC variants of linux to run on old boat-anchor iMacs), but it's never been a headache for me, whereas very smart computer people I know can't seem to get a stable install on older Apple hardware.
Not at all. I use linux since the early 2000s and I can't recall the last time I had any problem getting a linux install to run out of the box.
In fact, the only problem I could remembered was a wifi card that required ndiswrapper to run, way back in the good old days of Mandrake 10.
Other than that, I recall problems involving flash plugins, and that's that.
Meanwhile, throughout the last decade I've used Mandrake, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Debian as my main OSs. They always worked right out of the box.
That being said, I do buy hardware with linux compatibility in mind. Hardware support does make a difference.