What operating system doesn't have bugs? If your use case is using a browser for email, document editing, general browsing, etc I'd say the desktop Linux experience is on par with that of windows in terms of bugs. Browsers are popular and well supported. Get away from massively popular applications like the browser and that's when you're more likely to face issues and it's handy to have a bit of a deeper understanding and creativity in using an alternate approach. That being said, what about hardware issues? My ssd failed on my years ago when I still ran windows regularly. What did I do until I got my new drive? Live booted Linux. Windows doesn't even have such an offering as far as I'm aware and liveboot can be massively handy
Actually, I don't do normal browsing only. I am a web/bot developer so. But I got problems in linux while doing gamedev. I have posted about it though.
I've never tried game development in any os, but for web dev and interacting with Linux production systems, Linux on my system is my go to. I've done the work on both windows and Linux and windows requires one to do all sorts of workarounds whereas in Linux it just works. I had to roll back an app package a few weeks ago when a local update wasn't compatible with what the app interacts with on our servers, but aside from that it's been solid, better than my experience on windows doing the same. Gaming on Linux is getting better day by day too with steam really pushing proton, tools like lutris, and things like Vulcan. Still a long ways to go on the gaming front but it's become much better. Neither windows or Linux is perfect but I'll take the quirks of Linux over the quirks of windows any day
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What operating system doesn't have bugs? If your use case is using a browser for email, document editing, general browsing, etc I'd say the desktop Linux experience is on par with that of windows in terms of bugs. Browsers are popular and well supported. Get away from massively popular applications like the browser and that's when you're more likely to face issues and it's handy to have a bit of a deeper understanding and creativity in using an alternate approach. That being said, what about hardware issues? My ssd failed on my years ago when I still ran windows regularly. What did I do until I got my new drive? Live booted Linux. Windows doesn't even have such an offering as far as I'm aware and liveboot can be massively handy
Actually, I don't do normal browsing only. I am a web/bot developer so. But I got problems in linux while doing gamedev. I have posted about it though.
I've never tried game development in any os, but for web dev and interacting with Linux production systems, Linux on my system is my go to. I've done the work on both windows and Linux and windows requires one to do all sorts of workarounds whereas in Linux it just works. I had to roll back an app package a few weeks ago when a local update wasn't compatible with what the app interacts with on our servers, but aside from that it's been solid, better than my experience on windows doing the same. Gaming on Linux is getting better day by day too with steam really pushing proton, tools like lutris, and things like Vulcan. Still a long ways to go on the gaming front but it's become much better. Neither windows or Linux is perfect but I'll take the quirks of Linux over the quirks of windows any day