> I've rarely, if ever, had to re-configure anything major. I suspect we differ significantly in the sorts of configuration we do. Also, please note that I mo

> I've rarely, if ever, had to re-configure anything major. I suspect we differ significantly in the sorts of configuration we do. Also, please note that I mostly gave up on desktop Linux around 2006, after using it for 9 years straight as my only desktop OS. I kept using it for some things until earlier this year for work, and the update woes were still present, albeit smaller than in the past (maybe that's a Fedora-specific thing?). It's quite possible that even for a primary desktop the situation is better than it was in 2006, but at least for my use cases I'm at this point in "it ain't broken, don't spend time to fix it" territory wrt my OS. If that changes and there are things I want to do that macOS doesn't let me do, I will of course start looking at other options. > I think last time we lost the ability to even run 32-bit apps... Indeed, and for some people that's a deal-breaker. For me specifically it was a non-issue; everything I use had long ago upgraded to 64-bit. I had to install a newer version of DOSBox than I had before; that's it. Again, this is not going to be everyone's experience! Upshot: I'm glad we have the various options we have right now, since it's pretty clear that different people experience them very differently and value different tradeoffs. I would be very sad if any of them disappeared.