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Disagree. Whether it’s Raspbian on a Pi, or Fedora or Mint on a modern laptop, issues still occur, and any minor issue immediately launches you into the world of the terminal, Google, StackOverflow, and Ubuntu forums.

Claude has definitely helped to reduce this negative!

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The difference is on Windows when I have an issue it’s usually just straight up not fixable.

I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and things keep breaking after updates. When the video drivers break, YouTube starts dropping frames even at 1080p. When the audio drivers break, my headphones or microphone stop working. These kinds of issues were a nightmare before the LLM era. Now things are far easier.

On Ubuntu since 2006, Kubuntu the past several years on Dell, HP and Lenovo machines (multiple, home and work) and have not experienced what you're describing, odd. Wife too, complete non-techie, Ubuntu on 2 machines so far, no issues.

I think its very dependent on hardware.

The worst my family have had was an MS surface running a rolling release distro because it was the only way to get the touchscreen working which failed at a bad time. Now switched to a more stable distro and looks OK.

On the other hand most laptops and all desktops have been trouble free. Even running a rolling release distro (Manjaro) has been fine on a laptop that was designed for Linux (and sold with Linux preinstalled).

Claude is useful, but my experience when I have fewer issues than Windows users seem to. I think Raspbian and Fedora are unfair comparisons, and people using Ubuntu, Mint etc. seem to have more problems than Windows users.

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