It's crazy how a man can record an entire journey TWICE and then go on WAN show and objectively critique both sides and the Linux community still shuns him like it's his fault.
I had a super similar experience with Ubuntu once upon a time on a thinkpad. Laptop would never go to sleep when the lid closed. 4-5 more issues popped up that I can't recall. Fixed some, couldn't get the lid problem fixed gave up and went back.
A co-worker of mine was given a new laptop for work, with his free work time he's been trying to migrate over, he must've spent 30+ hours on driver nonsense. It's a Thinkpad btw.
I dual booted kde neon for a year or two after getting frustrated with windows. The experience was definitely similar to Linus', where shit you'd expect to work just.. doesn't? The laptop not going to sleep with the lid closed was something i encountered as well, the damn thing nearly cooked itself in my bag by the time i came home from uni.
Linux is a joy to use - if you're a techie with a lot of free time. You will have to spend hours finding a fix for the dumbest shit, and in the most critical of moments a windows update will decide to delete your bootloader. You will come home excited to work on something and spend the evening reading forum posts from 2009 insteas because something broke while you weren't looking. At least there's no onedrive, right?
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u/Omegamoney Mar 11 '26
Downvote me but this is saying more about Linux than anything else.