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Yes, and I’d say more than that—tinkers who are specifically interested in tinkering with Linux desktop administration.

I’ll do a ridiculous amount of work on some hobby project, but if a system update breaks my WiFi adapter, then I’m tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with WiFi drivers, which sucks, when I really want to be tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with my hobby project, which is awesome.

It’s like: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/asfgcj/bad_screen...

Same reason I switched to AMD GPUs. Getting the Nvidia cards working on Linux is just a distraction from whatever I really want to do.



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