Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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    Edit: not the kernel or the GNU utilities themselves, but rather some people on the various affiliated forums. While most people have been kind and helpful, a handful of bad apples don’t know how to behave. They are hostile to the point where one could easily lose the will to have anything to do with Linux.

    I have only ever been positively surprised. Just a few of all the good habits that Linux has made me adopt:

    1. RTFM
    2. Reading logs
    3. Keeping/reusing old hardware