Windows is just as bad if not worse. None of this behavior will change until consumers demand that it changes and start not buying things because of it. Linux

Windows is just as bad if not worse. None of this behavior will change until consumers demand that it changes and start not buying things because of it. Linux is still yours of course, but the if I value my labor at $100/hour (which is low) then a Linux machine will cost me in excess of $500/month to operate since I will probably spend at least 5 hours dinking around with little edge cases, driver issues, etc. That's really expensive compared to a Mac or a good Windows laptop when you average it out.