Because all Linux distros are just an amalgamation of thousands of programs and libraries, each with their own aims and pulling in different directions? That L

Because all Linux distros are just an amalgamation of thousands of programs and libraries, each with their own aims and pulling in different directions? That Linux distributions work as well as they do is a miracle in itself, I think. Comparing them with the massively vertically integrated software and hardware package built by the richest company on earth is unfair. Notice that whenever anyone has attempted to subsume different parts of the Linux stack (systemd, etc) into one project, the wider community hasn't really gone along with it without being dragged kicking and screaming, and some times it has led to further fragmentation. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing too, I feel the chaotic evolution,-not-design character of the ecosystem gives us a computing environment that has a better chance of staying free of whatever the clergy of the alternative cathedral model would choose to do, especially when sponsored by amoral corporations. So, I don't know what you would like to hear. Does Linux "just work" (whatever this marketing aphorism means?). I think it does, for me. My Dell XPS laptop running an Ubuntu LTS for work, a relatively expensive custom-built desktop rig running Debian Testing at home, and my medium-sized server for my personal projects running Debian Stable on AWS have run without any issues for more than a couple of years. Would I trade these for a massively expensive pretty aluminium box running a closed-source system that will take me several months to master as much as I have Linux (and really can never really, properly, understand due to it's closed nature) just to save me probably a couple of hours a year fixing minor issues on my Linux boxes? Probably not.