I agree it's totally worth it! I'm lucky that I have just enough free time to debug these things and I work with a few excellent Linux devs who have helped me with a few things.
Thanks for understanding the spirit of my point about the shortcomings above and I really like the way you phrased the "Windows has its issues as well, they're just different ones" - and I completely agree there.
With Windows you need to navigate the Microsoft account, files getting stored in OneDrive, updates happening outside your control (arguably a good thing for most users), and more that I'm sure I'm not thinking of.
I do think the Windows issues are more abstract like security, privacy, and default on features - while the Linux ones tend to be more in my face usability ones. Again agreeing that choosing your hardware and desk/laptop setup can alleviate many of things. But that requires knowing ahead of time and people switching in reaction to something Windows is doing don't get that benefit.
I guess I'm writing all this because the idea of a Linux distribution working perfectly on most/all laptops really excites me and I think being candid about the shortcomings yet providing support to the distributions is how we can get ace these fit and finish issues.
Food for thought for anyone else reading this - the end goal of Linux for everyone is why I don't get too worked up about snaps. If they get to a point where I can tell my mom she can safely install apps X, Y, and Z by pointing and clicking in the app center it's a great computing future.
Thanks for understanding the spirit of my point about the shortcomings above and I really like the way you phrased the "Windows has its issues as well, they're just different ones" - and I completely agree there.
With Windows you need to navigate the Microsoft account, files getting stored in OneDrive, updates happening outside your control (arguably a good thing for most users), and more that I'm sure I'm not thinking of.
I do think the Windows issues are more abstract like security, privacy, and default on features - while the Linux ones tend to be more in my face usability ones. Again agreeing that choosing your hardware and desk/laptop setup can alleviate many of things. But that requires knowing ahead of time and people switching in reaction to something Windows is doing don't get that benefit.
I guess I'm writing all this because the idea of a Linux distribution working perfectly on most/all laptops really excites me and I think being candid about the shortcomings yet providing support to the distributions is how we can get ace these fit and finish issues.
Food for thought for anyone else reading this - the end goal of Linux for everyone is why I don't get too worked up about snaps. If they get to a point where I can tell my mom she can safely install apps X, Y, and Z by pointing and clicking in the app center it's a great computing future.