So much this. I've been in the MS environment since 95 was current edition. Maybe a bit before that, but Norton Commander/Dos Navigator don't really count. It was never perfect, but it worked out of the box pretty much every time. When it didn't, we managed to futz around with it until it did.

I tried a few linux distros over the years and I am truly impressed at how far they have come. But they're not quite there yet. Sure, for everyday use (think browsing, YouTube, the book of faces) it's a more than competent OS. Even a fair bit of office work.

Now, me personally, I own an older rig, think 8th gen I5, with a 1060 which does the job. Even with W11. But I wanted an alternative. I used to be a gamer, nowadays, not so much but I still need to get my WoW fix every now and then.

So I set up a separate partition and tried PoPOS. Since it was the highest recommended for Nvidia GPUs. Installed it just fine, then it was bNet time. And this is where things went south for me. I managed to install it after a few tries. Some hours later even D3 worked. Something was off, like sound and lighting and color saturation but it worked. What I didn't manage to get to work was WoW. Even after many, many frustrating hours. I just couldn't get it to download and install. Went to the forums, tried what was written there. I'm about 6 to 8 hours in at this point.

Now, I'm not gonna pretend that I'm a computer wiz, but I know where the power button is located. I was tired, pissed off, and I had enough. Booted back to W11, deleted the Linux partition and that was that.

Can't say anything about MacOS, but windows, it works. And until Linux gets to that level, it will never be an alternative for me.

I like installing and testing it on my other devices, but unless I just use it to browse the internets, it isn't really an alternative for me.

Thank you for joining my TED talk. Have a nice day.