I wish there were some specific rules on the internet for discussing hardware. Things just always have a way of breaking down into practically religious points

I wish there were some specific rules on the internet for discussing hardware. Things just always have a way of breaking down into practically religious points of view. I'm going to toss a couple of things out there: 1. If you are saying that literally nothing works, everything is awful, and that computer X is just complete garbage, then a few things pop into my head: a) I start wondering if maybe you are just bad at computers, b) I suspect that you are probably talking about a computer your work bought for you that isn't your preferred OS, and c) I decide that you really aren't contributing anything useful to the conversation. 2. By the same token, when I see people writing that everything works flawlessly I think a couple of things as well: a) you probably aren't doing anything that interesting with it, b) you are talking about a machine you are personally invested in rather than one bought for you by your work, and c) you really aren't adding anything useful to the conversation. Here's the bottom line, from my point of view--as well as my point of view: I spent my own money on and use two mac laptops, a windows laptop, and a Linux desktop. From work, I have a mac laptop and a windows laptop, and a windows desktop. All of these computers have benefits and drawbacks. The baseline of shit that just needs to work actually works on all of them, most of the time. Weird things go wrong from time to time. I find the Linux desktop to be more fiddly than the other machines at times, but not so much that it pisses me off more than apt-get makes me happy. The windows machines are harder to get set up properly than the macs for working with dynamic languages, but they are the best choice for working on the Microsoft dev stack. Duh. The macs have some real problems as well for certain parts of statistical work. Homebrew + anaconda + Xcode-select just doesn't get the job done far too often. And deving on mac + deploying to Debian or Ubuntu can be a bunch of not-fun. Not a one of these machines is perfect or flawless in any way, but any one of them would be acceptable for a daily driver work box. To the people who are speaking about specific issues on specific machines, I greatly appreciate that. To the top and bottom 10% who are saying everything/nothing works, you really aren't helping much here, and I find your opinions suspiciously biased.