This article honestly just feels like a symptom of a larger issue of how Linux is being handled for general desktop usage. And I know that this is Hacker News

This article honestly just feels like a symptom of a larger issue of how Linux is being handled for general desktop usage. And I know that this is Hacker News and there will be thousands of people screaming "but it works on my machine"... It doesn't work for the vast majority of other peoples' machines. So much that having a cheap smartphone often provides a more functional environment for the average user.