I've been exclusively Linux as my desktop and laptop, personally and professionally, since the 1990s, and I manage Linux on laptops and desktops of some family members. I am very much of a 'back-end', 'server' kind of guy. My desktop has dozens of 80x24 terminals and a big web browser window, typically running under http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/
So, I can't directly disagree with most of what you said on point, except for sleep/hibernate/suspend. Especially in the last decade, it often works without any low-level tweaking, and I can get it going in MOST cases without too much fuss.
In the last 10+ years, my wifi experience on Linux has been very solid, often more solid than my OSX-using co-workers.
But this is all anecdata.
Though Ubuntu (and to a much lesser extent, some others) have come light-years toward producing a consistent, coherent Linux desktop experience, it still lags painfully behind OSX and Windows.
With all of these disadvantages, though, the 'all the way down' reliability and no-bullshit you get from a Linux desktop (or server) is worth its weight in gold. It's just that the entry fee is still too high.
I dunno, man -- I feel like constant user-experience problems, bizarre hardware issues, and endless configuration tweaking is both unreliable and bullshit. I often contemplate switching to a Linux system, even if just for a change of pace, but I can't justify giving up a platform that allows me to get the vast majority of what I need to do done without waging war against some other programmer's neuroses.
That's very fair. Most of my non-work computing tends to follow typical consumer trends, and most of my work computing isn't meaningfully compromised by running macOS over Linux (now that VMs are usable, at least) -- but I can imagine that if I depended on applications that don't have clear macOS equivalents that Linux would seem far more "reliable and no-bullshit" to me.
That beings said, the vast majority of consumers, and I suspect the vast majority of developers, do not rely on such applications (or their equivalent w/r/t Windows).
So, I can't directly disagree with most of what you said on point, except for sleep/hibernate/suspend. Especially in the last decade, it often works without any low-level tweaking, and I can get it going in MOST cases without too much fuss.
In the last 10+ years, my wifi experience on Linux has been very solid, often more solid than my OSX-using co-workers.
But this is all anecdata.
Though Ubuntu (and to a much lesser extent, some others) have come light-years toward producing a consistent, coherent Linux desktop experience, it still lags painfully behind OSX and Windows.
With all of these disadvantages, though, the 'all the way down' reliability and no-bullshit you get from a Linux desktop (or server) is worth its weight in gold. It's just that the entry fee is still too high.