That's odd to me to hear when on Linux half the updates crash the entire window manager, and once crashed, the only way to fix is to dig deep into CLI because that's the only thing you can even see anymore. Not to mention if you install a wrong GPU driver, which is much easier to do on Linux that one would want, same happens. There's no defaulting back to fallback when a failure occurs. Nothing. Just death. Not to mention the infinite problems with Nvidia GPU's, Wayland-specific issues, or X11 specific issues. Makes it seem as if there's no hardware that fully supports Linux. You have to be a Linux expert to use Linux even remotely well. And that's pretty stupid if you ask me.
> That's odd to me to hear when on Linux half the updates crash the entire window manager, and once crashed, the only way to fix is to dig deep into CLI because that's the only thing you can even see anymore.
That's not my experience. I can't remember the last time an update broke my window manager. I won't say it doesn't happen, but I don't think very common at all these days.
> Not to mention if you install a wrong GPU driver, which is much easier to do on Linux that one would want, same happens.
Again, I don't think this is really the risk that you're making it out to be. Most distributions are going to default to a reasonable driver for the hardware. There might be some knowledge required if you're using an old enough nvidia GPU but don't want to use the open source drivers, but that's an edge case that isn't going to impact a lot of people.
> There's no defaulting back to fallback when a failure occurs. Nothing. Just death.
macOS and Windows can both brick your machine with a bad update. I use NixOS and I think the situation is much better on average because I can always roll back to exactly any previous state of my system.
> Not to mention the infinite problems with Nvidia GPU's, Wayland-specific issues, or X11 specific issues.
Nvidia is a bit of a pain, but it _mostly_ just works these days. X11 and Wayland both have their issues, I don't feel like the overall state of things is worse than the alternative though. Sure, you don't have the particular bugs in Windows or macOS that you have to deal with using X or Wayland, but you have a whole different set of problems. I find the Linux problems generally more pleasant to live with.
> Makes it seem as if there's no hardware that fully supports Linux.
Most hardware works pretty well with Linux these days, and you can buy machines that ship with Linux if you want to guarantee support.
> You have to be a Linux expert to use Linux even remotely well. And that's pretty stupid if you ask me.
Linux great for beginners and people who don't demand a lot from their machines, and it's great for people who are willing to invest a bit of time into learning the system (and I think that investment has a pretty high return). You don't _have_ to be an expert to use Linux. Where I think most Linux distributions have struggled historically has been with the power user segment- people who either know Windows or macOS well and expect the same level of competency in Linux without spending the time learning another OS, or people who have strongly adapted to the quirks of other OSes and find Linux's different set of quirks more grating. That isn't "stupid" - it would be great if Linux worked better for that group of people, but power users of any system are always the hardest to transition over.
