> There are no compatibility issue with my Librem 14. Even suspend works 100% of the time.
Can you walk into any big box store and buy that thing, or a Framework? No. I am talking about OS choices accessible to the general public, not to nerds with dedicated knowledge. The experience of installing Linux on anything available at a big box store is likely to result in a multitude of issues.
No actor in Linux at large makes any effort to cater to the general public, and that's the point I'm making.
> Also, GNU/Linux is not an OS but there are many very different OSes for different use cases and visual preferences.
... and the consequence of that multitude of How To Do Things is precisely what keeps Linux adoption so low. Steve Ballmer had a point in "developers developers developers" - it's no wonder that there aren't that many native software products viable for actual commercial use on Linux.
I assume that you can walk in many big box stores and buy a Dell computer or a HP computer with preinstalled Linux.
I am not sure about brick-and-mortar stores, because I have not used such stores for many decades, but with on-line shopping it is certainly easy to find a Dell or HP computer with preinstalled Linux that supports the hardware as well as Windows. Moreover, choosing Ubuntu over Windows frequently saves at least one hundred $.
I have such a Dell laptop (Dell Precision), which came with a preinstalled Ubuntu that worked perfectly (even if I have wiped it and installed another Linux by myself, because I do not like Ubuntu).
It's a scale problem. Walmart or whatever, they buy and sell insane quantities of goods - they make life insanely difficult for vendors and either you're someone as large as HP, Acer, Asus etc who can get by with margins less than 1% but make up for it in volume, or you can't compete with them at all and stay out of the big box stores for good.
That's why anti-trust legislation and enforcement is actually important... to prevent ossification of scale that effectively prohibits new actors from entering the market.
Can you walk into any big box store and buy that thing, or a Framework? No. I am talking about OS choices accessible to the general public, not to nerds with dedicated knowledge. The experience of installing Linux on anything available at a big box store is likely to result in a multitude of issues.
No actor in Linux at large makes any effort to cater to the general public, and that's the point I'm making.
> Also, GNU/Linux is not an OS but there are many very different OSes for different use cases and visual preferences.
... and the consequence of that multitude of How To Do Things is precisely what keeps Linux adoption so low. Steve Ballmer had a point in "developers developers developers" - it's no wonder that there aren't that many native software products viable for actual commercial use on Linux.