I don't need new reasons to hate Linux. Like I said, I have moved to macbooks as my personal computing device because of the better hardware.

> solved a while ago

Can not be the case because I was facing these issues less than a couple of years ago.

I was responding to the "Stockholm syndrome" comment specifically because there are a number of hardware and software problems (e.g. https://jayfax.neocities.org/mediocrity/gnome-has-no-thumbna...) with using linux as a desktop operating system that linux users have to find their way around, so I found the comment rather full of irony.

PS: I already know that the file-picker issue has been fixed. That does not take away from the fact that it was in fact broken for decades. It is only meant as an example.