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I already have a 60+ hour per week job. I don't need a second one, endlessly diagnosing why the simplest of tasks are constantly breaking.
Have to agree. I've been using linux for ~20 years. Tried using it multiple times as a desktop main system. Sometimes it took a few days, sometimes a few months but I always ended up back at windows (now macos). It's always something random. Something that should work, but is not. Something I could (given time) fix if I wanted to. The problem is that these tend to happen at times I want to actually use my computer and not tinker around. I have linux running on multiple servers perfectly fine, but on desktop it's a hard pass for me.