Jup. I think I've had some 3 actual issues the past 2 years on EndeavourOS. But the Endeavour team did a good job of warning me on Discord/RSS or at least provide tutorials and explanations afterwards.

One of the issues was in regard to Grub (fixed by Timeshift rollback and a one-liner), one was in regard to some rogue Nvidia bug crashing the login window (fixed by Timeshift rollback and waiting a few days before updating again), and one was Nvidia removing support for GTX1000 cards and older (Nvidia, WHYYYYYYYY?!).

For reference, I had what felt like similar annoying bugs (and much worse) on Windows 10 about every month, but without any useful support from Microsoft. :(

EDIT: speaking of the devil. A fourth issue just popped up.

I was thinking the same thing, I have installed it on a laptop and it's almost boring how it just works.

I don't get new issues all the time like op says, but I do have a few nagging issues that I'm too lazy to fix.

Usually it's graphics drivers going boom on update.

you know what distro I would choose if I were prone to tinkering at the expense of the system's month-to-month stability?

nah, I visit archlinux.org before updating but most of the pain is self-inflicted

But see, doesn't that just mean it's a really good operating system? Not necessarily "fun"? I don't know if I'm getting my point across here. Think of a pair of shoes, there is much variation of form and design intent and pricing and capability but nevertheless they're pretty much all there to facilitate the task of walking. You could get a really bad pair of shoes that constantly dig holes in to your foot and fall to pieces and make walking a huge chore. Maybe some day someone will make a pair that somehow force you stop and look at billboards and ad displays, those would be your windows shoes. You could also get a great pair, that feels so comfortable you could forget you're even wearing them, they look great and they were a fantastic price and they never worsen your ability to perform the task of walking. They might even be such good shoes that they're suitable for all sorts of walking adjacent tasks like running as well, perhaps you'll enjoy running, again though what's fun there? Running? Or having shoes that don't make running difficult? I'd assume the former. That's what I tend to wonder about with the folks who talk about how much fun Linux is. I'm sure the various distros are really great operating systems that work way better than a lot of other options and don't have the same perverse incentives that keep those other options so consistently poor and for all those reasons it's a great choice but who's looking at operating systems thinking "this is going to be fun"? I'd love to have that same capacity to be so amused by it but it's hard to see it as anything other than a functional piece of equipment. I certainly will have preferences and appreciation for good equipment but I wouldn't think of it as fun. I have a similar reaction to people that say they like it because they want to tinker or "you can do anything you want with it", I don't want to yuk anyone's yum but, what would you even be trying to do with it?

Be the change you want to see in the world

Imagine Microsoft Office and Exchange Server being available for Microsoft Linux. Instead of WINE it ships with actual windows libraries as binary.

So instead of Windows Subsystem for Linux, you get Linux Subsystem for Windows.

Without the „corpos“ spending money on developing the Linux ecosystem, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Red Hat (systemd), Oracle, IBM made a lot possible. Apple took KHTML and turned it into WebKit, the browser engine bundled with GTK and Qt.

Google managed to capture Linux with Chromebooks and Android phones. However their spending benefited others as well.

Single maintainers can’t do much to stop a determined corporation with money from forking a component or writing a replacement. I remember how Debian maintainers spent immense amounts of time and energy into fighting about adoption of systemd to replace sysv init.

he is just reading lines with the same facial expression all the time. If you havent noticed, try rewatching with that in mind… :)

That's basically Duchovny's whole range, as far as I can tell.

I think he was in some non-X-Files related movie. I never saw it, but I remember the commercial for it. Duchovny's character: "Are you here to kill me?" "Yes, are you worried?" "Just trying to plan my day." All deadpan.

I got so tired of X-Files stringing me along. It reminded me of some women that I tried to date. I gave up after the first movie (yeah, the one everyone forgets about) - no answers there, either!