Totally agree. It's nice when things work, but a total pain to troubleshoot. I built my home desktop with recommended parts almost four years ago and installe

Totally agree. It's nice when things work, but a total pain to troubleshoot. I built my home desktop with recommended parts almost four years ago and installed 10.8. Since upgrading to 10.9 about a year ago, the built-in audio stopped working. Researching fixes takes me to multiple baffling threads that span dozens of pages. I recently installed Windows 10 as a dual boot on the system, largely to try the Windows subsystem for Linux. That wasn't a trouble-free process either, but in the end it recognizes all the hardware, including a card reader that I thought was broken. Although I use an iMac at work, and will continue to look first at Mac laptops, I'll probably transition to Windows once 10.9 gets too old.