Disclaimer: I work for https://system76.com https://system76.com, and I make my living selling machines with Linux preinstalled. Well, but when's the last time

Disclaimer: I work for https://system76.com https://system76.com, and I make my living selling machines with Linux preinstalled. Well, but when's the last time you installed Windows or OSX on clean hardware? Especially one where Windows needed a third-party driver to read the disk? Neither are difficult, mind you, but it's not a task that's suitable for "grandma". As an apples-to-apples counterpoint, I've been a full-time Linux user for a decade now, but I recently had occasion built a Windows gaming rig for the family. Getting from zero to first boot wasn't difficult, but I was shocked and dismayed at how nothing Just Worked. Instead, I had to go manually download drivers for half a dozen common pieces of hardware. I'm not an expert, but I'm definitely not a novice, and while there might have been a short window in which Windows had hit peak compatibility, it seems that the numerous hoops I had to jump through to accommodate a mainstream video card and a simple software RAID may well indicate that the moment has passed.