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Uh, that's not what I said at all. I never once said Linux is trash. Pretty sure one of my posts said it's cool, actuakly. It just wasn't suitable for me. When it was put to me that the options are Linux or throw the computer away due to Windows 10 being end of life, then in that instance (which is not reality), then my computer might as well go in the bin precisely because Linux's inability to run a stable environment with my use case would, in effect, render my computer into a brick anyway.
Fans of Linux seem to think it's suitable for every use case, for every user, and this is simply not the case. The overlap of people that have no specialised needs for their computer (for which gaming, frankly, is one) and also have the knowledge to run Linux without any problems (since they won't be able to fix it when - not if - they get some kind of error) and the knowledge to know which hardware is compatible and which isn't (since the wrong component also renders Linux unstable) is actually very small.