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I'm a mercenary systems administrator located in Columbia, SC. My first real hands-on experience with open source software was running Apache on FreeBSD webservers in the late 90s and early 2000s. Since then, I moved on to Samba, BIND, qmail, postfix, and anything and everything else that grabbed my attention. I currently support Windows, FreeBSD, Debian, and Ubuntu workstations and servers doing just about everything that you can possibly do with any or all of them. RAH said it best - specialization is for insects!
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I'd just like to point out to both of the gentlemen giving examples of linux being hard that they're using non-long-term-support releases.
Not being able to use proprietary software that you're accustomed to *is* a perfectly reasonable "this doesn't work for me" issue; but it's hardly a slam against Linux itself being "easy" or "difficult", either one.
Regarding Linux "requiring" you to take [hardware] back - it doesn't, of course, any more than Windows does. You're free to dive down the rabbit-hole making any given piece of equipment with poor driver support work, just as you are in Windows. The difference is the clear delineation between "supported and works" and "unsupported, maybe you can eventually make it work, maybe not."