I’ve been there for 10+ years. I’m gone now. Haven’t opened Reddit to browse it since Baconreader stopped working. Every now and then I am directed there for answers to my questions, but that’s the only thing I use it for now. Lemmy doesn’t fully replace it, but maybe it was time to let that braindead browsing addiction die off anyway.

This is simply not true in my experience. Basically everyone I know has to deal with all kinds of shit when installing Linux. Broken graphics drivers, random freezes, the touchpad disabling after closing the laptop, wifi not working, etc. There’s always something. Now I don’t mind fixing that, because I enjoy Linux more despide all of these issues. Andost of my friends manage to solve it as well because they’re programmers like me. But the average person might not be able to solve it and will feel like they’re constantly interacting with a broken system.