The Linux desktop is held back largely by distros. Most won't ship proprietary drivers bundled in the kernel, so your sound and gpu will rarely ever work out o

The Linux desktop is held back largely by distros. Most won't ship proprietary drivers bundled in the kernel, so your sound and gpu will rarely ever work out of the box. The few distros that do ship proper fully bundled kernels often have more difficult installations (I.E.: Slackware vs Fedora command line with cfdisk/fdisk vs pretty guided gui). I really like the most recent addition of Gnome on Fedora. But it refuses to support more then 1 monitor without me manually editing my xorg.conf or fighting Xrandr. So if I want 2-4 desktops I have to use windows.