Comment by nsagent

Sure, part of the issue is bad hardware support, but most recently I had a Dell laptop for work with Ubuntu on it. It was officially supported, but refused to go to sleep properly, so each morning it would be nearly drained even if it was fully charged the night before.

I had other issues that were not hardware related though. The desktop environment was missing some basic features for things like mouse settings that I had to install community extensions for, which were buggy.

I also had issues with printers, HDMI output, keyboard settings, and more. The list goes on and on. Each was something I spent time on that I haven't had to spend time on with MacOS (it's been a decade and a half since I've used Windows, but I remember it having fewer issues).

BTW, I also dread OS updates on Linux, and that includes server-side. Definitely another pain point that feels more severe than on MacOS.

Anyway, I'm glad that Linux works for some people's usecases, but it feels like it's been in this limbo of quasi-usable for quite a while from my perspective.