I am a Linux Embedded Developer and daily drive Linux more or less exclusively. And if I had a free wish regarding the futures of OS, I would wish for Windows to die. But still I have to disagree with this article. Yes Linux is absolutely great especially for development and just from a technical perspective it is also superior to Windows in most things. Also many distributions are even easier to use than Windows for basic users (most people who say otherwise are just used to Windows). But there are no doubtedly issues with Linux. E.g. problems with drivers are a more common than on win, also drivers are not handled as uniformly as they are in the device manager on win. I quite often had issues with the pulse/alsa needing a restart on some machines. And issues with gnomes file manager especially regarding broken/removable drives and slow/disappeared network shares are definitely much worse than on Windows, maybe KDE is better there (never tried).
MS Office is definitely superior to LibreOffice, from a functionality, usability and design perspective.
Missing professional tools from many industries (Adobe Cloud, CAD, Video Editing and more) are a big issue.
Gaming is STILL an issue, yes a lot got much better. But there are more titles than just multiplayer ones which won't work. E.g. the newest AoE versions. Even if there are workarounds at least for me the one click Lutris way did not always work. Also VR support on Linux is pretty much not existing.
HDR is not supported on Linux and HDCP stuff is also not yet fully working. Getting streaming providers like Netflix to play in >720p is also quite a hassle if possible at all.
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I am a Linux Embedded Developer and daily drive Linux more or less exclusively. And if I had a free wish regarding the futures of OS, I would wish for Windows to die. But still I have to disagree with this article. Yes Linux is absolutely great especially for development and just from a technical perspective it is also superior to Windows in most things. Also many distributions are even easier to use than Windows for basic users (most people who say otherwise are just used to Windows). But there are no doubtedly issues with Linux. E.g. problems with drivers are a more common than on win, also drivers are not handled as uniformly as they are in the device manager on win. I quite often had issues with the pulse/alsa needing a restart on some machines. And issues with gnomes file manager especially regarding broken/removable drives and slow/disappeared network shares are definitely much worse than on Windows, maybe KDE is better there (never tried).
MS Office is definitely superior to LibreOffice, from a functionality, usability and design perspective.
Missing professional tools from many industries (Adobe Cloud, CAD, Video Editing and more) are a big issue.
Gaming is STILL an issue, yes a lot got much better. But there are more titles than just multiplayer ones which won't work. E.g. the newest AoE versions. Even if there are workarounds at least for me the one click Lutris way did not always work. Also VR support on Linux is pretty much not existing.
HDR is not supported on Linux and HDCP stuff is also not yet fully working. Getting streaming providers like Netflix to play in >720p is also quite a hassle if possible at all.