This brought back memories, but I haven't had to do any of those things for ten years or so now. I've been careful in my hardware purchases, yes, but I've been

This brought back memories, but I haven't had to do any of those things for ten years or so now. I've been careful in my hardware purchases, yes, but I've been running mostly Fedora on a couple of ThinkPads and it almost always just keeps on working. Especially the last four or five years, which is about how long it's been since I last had to switch to Ubuntu because Fedora was too broken. The latest shock was upgrading to Fedora 25 and finding out the Wayland session was running and I could barely tell the difference. All that extra time before making it the default was definitely worth it! Most impressive. Sure, desktop Linux isn't for everyone and it's not for every workload (I'm a .NET developer, I more or less have to use Windows at work; and I do have a big Windows box at home for gaming) but it lets me do my web browsing and my artwork and my hobby development stuff in great comfort and mostly just stays out of my way.