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The new laptop I got from the company had nVidia graphics. After hours of trying, I was still not able to set-up nVidia drivers, and I have ultimately given up.

But a lot of small things added up:

* full-disk encryption in combination with dual-boot is doable, but not easy

* most of the software is either late with updates, or worse. For many vendors Linux support is an afterthought, and it shows. Teams is almost unusable (at least was in April 2021).

* every system update carries the risk of the OS not booting up any more. These days it's easy to restore back, but still, it's a risk of wasting time that is not easy to accept in a professional environment.




> full-disk encryption in combination with dual-boot is doable, but not easy

Kinda. You can't configure it during install, but I think it would be pretty easy to set up LUKS afterwards.

> most of the software is either late with updates, or worse

It really depends on your distro. Many of the 'stable' options will try to hold back updates in order to prevent breakage, which is why I personally prefer a more cutting-edge, rolling-release design. To each their own, though.

> every system update carries the risk of the OS not booting up any more

Ironically, the thing that got me to switch to Linux was having my entire PC bricked by a Windows update. The bootloader and partition table appeared to have completely erased itself off my drive, so I pulled the trigger and just switched to Arch. I haven't had my computer refuse to boot since, but I have gotten some surprises when my desktop updates behind my back. YMMV, but I feel like every OS is horribly unstable these days. At least Linux obeys my commands when I ask them.




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