> No one really falls in love "trying out flavours" of alternative software; the little differences just get in the way.
As stated, I used linux for an ~3 year period, using only one distro (I forget now if it was Ubuntu or Mint). When I've tried again, it's not "the little differences" that bother me - it's that my HDMI port doesnt work, or my audio doesnt work, or my wifi doesn't work, or (in my most recent attempt, using ubuntu 20.04 with hardware released between 2016 and 2018) all three at the same time.
> Android users don't like iOS, and iPhone users don't dig Android. Are they both right, or wrong?
They're both right. There are legitimate concerns with both. Same with linux, and windows, and mac OS.
The point is, with windows, I hack around to make things work in a way I like, but they work to begin with. With linux, in my experience, it takes hours of hacking to get things working at all, and then they arbitrarily break weeks to months down the line for no clear reason and require many more hours to figure out why.
As stated, I used linux for an ~3 year period, using only one distro (I forget now if it was Ubuntu or Mint). When I've tried again, it's not "the little differences" that bother me - it's that my HDMI port doesnt work, or my audio doesnt work, or my wifi doesn't work, or (in my most recent attempt, using ubuntu 20.04 with hardware released between 2016 and 2018) all three at the same time.
> Android users don't like iOS, and iPhone users don't dig Android. Are they both right, or wrong?
They're both right. There are legitimate concerns with both. Same with linux, and windows, and mac OS.
The point is, with windows, I hack around to make things work in a way I like, but they work to begin with. With linux, in my experience, it takes hours of hacking to get things working at all, and then they arbitrarily break weeks to months down the line for no clear reason and require many more hours to figure out why.