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by throw73484858 610 days ago
Because Linux is soo hard to use. You have to use supported hardware (like with any other OS), and once a year paste a few commands into terminal.
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I love Linux. I've just been burned too many times to trust it on my primary laptop. This is a machine with a high availability requirement -- if I have a job interview, the camera had better work right now.
Never updating within several days of anything important works well in my experience.

Although the specific hardware matters as well—an Intel Macbook’s Facetime HD abomination with its out-of-tree drivers was a source of constant frustration; by contrast, the Framework’s camera (the old one, not the one released recently) has been solid enough that I don’t actually know what it is.

I agree about the issues that Linux sometimes has....

However, how is this different from current Windows? I have had a machine decide that it needed to update while I was in the middle of a teams call. "Luckily" I was able to switch over to phone while it did what it wanted to do and then switch back but still....

Your Wi-Fi drivers have been removed from the kernel. Please download them on USB stick. You were warned
I've actually had to get Wi-Fi drivers on a USB stick a lot more times for Windows than for Linux.