Yeah but consider the following: CUDA. I don’t even game that much (and I was okay with older games that can be played on a Ryzen APU) but I had to get a laptop with a 3050 for GPGPU shenanigans. It is definitely a downgrade in terms of Linux compatibility compared to my older laptop (the machine doesn’t go to sleep properly unless you are running Ubuntu 20.04, which I discovered accidentally)
How do we know that you’re not editorializing your Linux experience? I haven’t experienced a Linux system failing in the last 3 years at the very least. If Linux was prone to failure, the Linux servers I SSH into wouldn’t have uptimes > 1 year. Even NVIDIA hardware is not as fussy as it used to be a few years ago. It either just works out of the box or requires installing one package and rebooting in most distros.
I’m not accusing you of lying, it just seemed ironic that you accuse people of editorializing the Windows experience while you conclude from anecdotal evidence that Linux is prone to failure.
I remember seeing this in at least one Linux distro (I think it was Bunsenlabs but I’m not sure, might be something like Kali but I never used that one) a few years ago, nowadays they just give the live account passwordless sudo and lock the root account unless you pick a password for it