You go, author - beat that straw-man up! Kill him good! Show us all how this exaggerated claim can't possibly be true! Nobody ever told me that Linux was suppo

You go, author - beat that straw-man up! Kill him good! Show us all how this exaggerated claim can't possibly be true! Nobody ever told me that Linux was supposed to be a paradise; indeed, I'm sure I've read this same list of complaints dozens of times over the last few decades. I didn't switch to full-time Linux use because I thought it was the best thing ever, but because the alternatives grew sufficiently irritating that I no longer cared to put up with them. Yes, Linux sometimes requires tinkering - though far less often than people who complain about this seem to think - but the fact that it can be tinkered with means that the machine can always be made to do what I want it to do, even if that takes some work. It's my machine, not Apple's or Microsoft's or Google's, and I will decide how it is to work and what it is to be used for; Linux alone(1) still seems to understand that, so that's where I'm staying. [1] I'm sure the BSDs are good about this too, but I've never had reason to try them.