Hmm... I use Fedora (and have been for many few years) and have experience none (or _very_ few) of these problems. In the past (5 or more years ago) there have

Hmm... I use Fedora (and have been for many few years) and have experience none (or _very_ few) of these problems. In the past (5 or more years ago) there have been problems, and I had to tweak things a lot, compile projects myself, etc. With every release I had to do less of that, and the past years or two everything just works. Seems the article is outdated. Video: Just works. No tearing at all, automatically uses H/W decoding. External monitors just work. Resolution is automatically adjusted. 3D/GL: just works. Both Intel and NVIDIA (use Intel most of the time and simply start games with "optirun") I do not play the latest games. For that I use a Playstation/XBox. Sound: just works. Local speaker, bluetooth external speakers, all just works. GUI: Despite X11 being old it works remarkably well. I use GL compositions for desktop effects. KDE works flawlessly. Printing: Just works. When I got a new network printer KDE found it, asked me whether I wanted to use it, then downloaded the driver and asked to print a test page. That's it. And on top of this Linux enables me to always know what's going on when needed. I can drop back to a shell at any time and everything is accessible that way. I also have a MacBook Pro from work. I have _way_ more problems with that one. Random hangs with the (admittedly pretty) spinning color wheel. It did not recognize my network printer. I had to tell it the IP address, find a driver myself, install that, and then play around for a bit until it finally worked. Now I do a fair bit of software engineering on my machines, and so I might not notice the non-obvious things I do anymore. I also have the full development chain easily at my fingertips completely for free. And I might very well be biased, since Linux is what I am used to. Edit: Spelling