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I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. I work with Linux which, you admit, does not "just work". Your Windows/Mac systems just work because you pay someone to make it work for you (you don't skip the latest bug/security fixes do you?) That's the same as taking your car to the garage. I take my car to the garage too. But with Linux, I am the garage.

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> Sure it's nice if a machine "just works", but machines don't just work.

I want Linux to be great as a desktop, but I’ve given up. I use Windows (with WSL2 for a Linux dev environment) because it is not my experience that “machines don’t just work.” It’s just that _Linux_ doesn’t ;)

Windows doesn't just work either. You've invested years upon years of learning to make it work. If you had instead used Linux full time exclusively for over a decade like me you'd be able to make it work too.

MacOS doesn't work by design. It's by far the worst choice there is.

Nope, I’m pretty ambivalent about my OS… Used Linux professionally for several years, Mac OS for several and only recently switched back to Windows with the advent of WSL 2.

Having spent multiple years on all three I promise you that my experience does not bear out your assertion. And to point it out: I am more than capable of making Linux do most of the things I want it to (tar flags be damned) I just prefer the UX on MacOS or windows

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