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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    Anecdotal evidence blahblahblah. For example: I just had to reverse engineer some epson drivers to get my fucking printer to play with my USB hub. Shit sucks sometimes, and I'm not going to pretend windows doesn't also have it's moments, but they sure as hell are less frequent (for me recently) than they are on windows.

    Linux by its nature is very fractious (See: the Gentoo vs Debian debate that had been going on since the dawn of time...), and that means we don't get one general distro. Linux's big strength is in it's customizability, and while for you and me it's clearly a great option that we love and cherish, for my grandma it's just not there in terms of plug-n'-play usability. Also, it was probably made by the wrong sort of Baptist or something, my grandma is awful.
    ...
    Anyways, while I love Linux, it's nice that there's an option for the people who just don't care. I'd love for them to start caring, because they should, but until I'm made omnipotent dictator for life it's just not going to happen. And that sucks, but at least I don't get calls at 4am asking why they cant get a flatpak working on debian. (I know it's supported but...)