Skype doesn't get along with my graphics drivers, On my corp maintained windows desktop it will sometimes peg the CPU/GPU and display garbage on screen until it overheats and hard resets.
I guess Windows just isn't ready for the desktop.
Not an issue with Linux though, you just have incompetent tech maintenance.
That is a major on-the-desktop constituency, though: company standard builds. If companies struggle to do it, that reflects badly on the system as a solution. There is a difference between something being technically feasible, vs a realised outcome.
I have had a shot at building a standard desktop on top of ubuntu. My situation was easier than most in that we only had two desktops to support (a thinkpad and a dell laptop). still, making driver setup work seamlessly is hard. Imagine a company with twenty variations and an audit directive to not give root to users.
WSL has huge potential to this market. You get a linux ui and kernel api, and it complements your existing standard build strategy.
Well yes, it probably isn't such a piece of cake. I was too harsh.
My (corp-maintained) Linux desktop locks up under heavy load for every few days, usually recovers though. The person who sits next to me has it worse though.
And this is with standardized corp-bought hardware.
Any year now though.