> It's an impressive achievement, and it's also a sad comment on the overall viability of Linux as a consumer-facing operating system for normal people. I don't think anyone is arguing that Linux hasn't earned its place in the data center—it most certainly has—but there's no way I'd feel comfy installing even newbie-friendly Ubuntu or Mint on my parents' computers. The XPS 13 DE shows the level of functionality and polish possible with extra effort, and that effort and polish together means this kind of Linux integration is something we won't see very often outside of boutique OEMs.

This is not extra effort, though. The same effort is required to make their Windows computers work. What you are experiencing is the realization that for most computers, there is no effort made to have them run linux well

Linux's biggest problem is one of perception. Because people are used to their Windows and Mac computers "just working", they think that is the steady-state of OSes, and that Linux is somehow failing to achieve normalcy.