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For me it's that 'can make it work' != 'want to spend hours researching to make it work'
If you have a well supported use case Linux is great, if you need to do some things that rely on proprietary drivers, old software, etc it's a pain
I like the ux in some common windows utilities a lot more than I like their Linux alternatives. I prefer nano zip over the default app that came with my distro.
Default video settings caused going to console to be use a comically oversized font for my large monitor. I remembered how to change fonts sort of, but couldn't for the life of me remember how to change the resolution. Internet searches had results of mixed quality. Pretty difficult to distinguish instructions for the old boot loader versus the current one. Set the res finally, but it didn't work. One of the commands I tried did seem to work, but then it caused the advanced graphics to disappear and video transcode suffered. Finally I found the answer I should have used all along: sudo dpkg reconfigure (some package I can't remember now)
And everything is like that. You want to do something, you better get educated. It's great for hobbyists, but I find as I get older I just want it to look right and do the thing, so I choose windows from the grub menu and forget I even have it for weeks.
It's great when everything is supported and works and you like the application and you'd spent sixteen hours theming your desktop and and and .. but ain't nobody got time fo dat