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by Joel_Mckay 361 days ago
Indeed, "good" doesn't matter if the OS is a pain to use.

The Driver support issues are essentially a theological war between FOSS ideals, and mystery OEM binaries.

Most of the linux kernel code is still the driver modules, and board support packages.

The desktop options have always been a mess of forks and bodged applets to make it useful.

Ubuntu balances the purity of Debian with practical user experience (we could all write a book about UEFI shenanigans.) RedHat focuses more on hardened server use-cases.

Is it worse than Win11 ? depends what you are doing, and what people consider is the low bar for messing with users. =3