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Great quote about computers: “You have to make sure your technology doesn’t take more time to keep up with than to actually use.”

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Desktop Linux in a nutshell.

That's not true and it's a disservice to Linux. Ubuntu will work out of the box. So will it variants. Probably applies to current Fedora variants as well.

Depends on your hardware.

I have a Asus laptop here, that was bought with Linux support and Ubuntu had its share of issues with the wlan card.

To this day still doesn't take advantage of AMD GPU as it should.

Ubuntu have done really well with 'it just works'; it's the only distro that installs out of the box with the correct Broadcom driver for my Mac Mini. While I could of gone for Arch like I normally do, it was nice for a change to have an installer I can walk away from and let it do its thing and come back to a working machine.

Fedora is great out of the box. Unless you want to use something other than GNOME 3. Or play MP3s.

I've been a lifetime Windows user and I just recently switched to Linux Mint. It's really come a long way since I last tried it 1-2 years ago.

Actually, I've been having far more problems with Windows 10 than with Linux (just today it decided to make my speakers sound awful and nothing seems to fix it). And for some reason, Windows problems seem a lot more difficult to solve, even though I've been using it for 20 years.

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