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by rubyn00bie 1048 days ago
I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver, and primary OS, for going on four years now I think. I’ve only ever had things break once, and it was because I installed competing versions of NVidia drivers. Even then, it was painless (for me) to fix as booting the machine to a terminal allowed me to “apt remove” that shit in less than a minute.

I had some issues with Pulseaudio but overall they were minor, and now Pulseaudio has been swapped for something else and I don’t even know what it is… because it works well enough.

I’m not trying to say you didn’t experience problems, but your experience is the opposite of mine. I had more problems with Windows than I’ve had Linux. Windows absolutely ruined installs and disks on bad updates I more times than I can count. And the networking stack isn’t dog shit like modern MacOS (I still use Macs for work), plus unlike MacOS I can use a performant GPU to play games or do research.