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.
It’s difficult to be disappointed with something that is free.
Actually, one shouldn’t be disappointed with things. Only people can disappoint you.
I was disappointed in the Debian crew when they standardized on systemd when it clearly wasn’t ready yet.
And I was disappointed in the people running some distros that made Wayland the standard when it clearly wasn’t ready yet (a few apps I rely on don’t support it or run poorly on Wayland even now).
Other than that, free software, free choice, and a lot of learning possibilities. You just have to adapt your expectations. Change hardware, change software, change distros, and learn.
Time has value.
Trying a new distros is a 10 minutes endeavor. Tops. 🤷♂️ And there’s Ventoy.
Haha, you sound like my boss… it only takes 10 minutes. If you want to really try it out and not just, more or less, boot it, then it takes more time. And right now in my life, 10 minutes is a lot and does not include getting ready to spent 10 minutes.
So fa, I have had big differences between running in a VM and on actual hardware.
You could see it as time invested. For me, it’s something I do in my free time, on an old laptop, for the fun of it. And for the learning aspect of it.
My main system also runs Linux, but I don’t tamper much with it. It just runs. Reliable, predictable, boring. Boring is good for important systems. But that’s not why I run Linux.
I will invest my time elsewhere. Boring is good, Debian Stable all the way.