This was mostly a joking jab and honestly not as true today as it used to be. I spent a lot of years fighting just to get a gfx or network card working with any

This was mostly a joking jab and honestly not as true today as it used to be. I spent a lot of years fighting just to get a gfx or network card working with any distro but that was honestly a long time ago. Linux has come a long way. I'll agree that linux is a fine development platform. I might well switch back if the direction OSX/Apple goes continues to be questionable.