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  • Just look at some of the comments.

    A lot are still “the OS is great you’re the issue” (nvm that clean installs sometimes have these issues) or “git gud scrub” or “just post some error logs” even though that gets a reply maybe half the time (which gets again into expecting something the average person wouldn’t know how to do btw, which is a problem if you want better adoption) or “but Windoze does has problems111!”.

    The reality is that Linux still can’t be stably used for a lot of standard things: new(and newish) hardware, printing, lack of good UI design in many programs, and to a degree gaming (it’s been massively improved there though thanks to Proton).

    Yeah, Windows has problems. But those arise more typically for advanced users (and that’s including Windows 11 being more and more broken over time).

    If you just want to browse the internet and use some office apps, with no dual booting, it’ll just work. That’s the reality of it, and it makes sense considering it’s supported by a multi billion dollar company.

    I know Linux for desktop has come a long way (I remember the Slackware days). But until the more boring stuff gets worked out, it’ll still be hard for it to be used more commonly, and thus harder for it to get more funding and usage as well. That’s why I think Linux is stuck in the 4% rut - sure it looks pretty now, but there’s still a lot of under the hood tinkering required to just do basic things on standard hardware.

    Despite the venting it’s still a great thing it exists and I love Linux. But I think that’s what makes me wish it could work better in some cases.

    Idk, maybe it’s just Debian based distros these days and I’m behind in the curve. Fedora based ones like Bazzite haven’t given me issues so far at least.