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Has much changed in two years? Every once in a while I hear Linux is finally user friendly, and I go try it and my multiple monitors don't work and my graphics card drivers require manual installation and I get constantly riddled with permissions prompts which I'm sure is necessary but still annoys me as an end user.

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It has. But there is still the ol' quirks. I had problems with sounds on ubuntu on my ThinkPad. I had to install XFCE for it to play nice with 2 monitors (since the gpu in the old laptop is kind of sucky). But Macosx has even worse compability, so if you buy computer parts that are knows to play nice with linux you'll have a swell time :).

Also, when you start playing with tiling window managers you'll be glad you don't have a mac.

Not much has changed. I stopped upgrading my work desktop because the drivers for my wired Ethernet needs to be recompiled every Ubuntu upgrade. Very annoying when I am in the middle of a sprint and I have to stop to figure out why basic things are no longer working.

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