I ran Linux for four years. I spent a night getting it setup. Didn’t diddle with it except for major OS upgrades… and even that was, at most, a morning. The only issues I ran into was internal docs that assumed you were running OS X and those I could usually skip because on my machine it “just worked” like prod.

I have used linux for about 20 years or so and have no clue what you are talking about.

I don't think I have needed to do the things you describe in about 15 years.

In fact, I don't remember ever needing to use LD_LIB_PRELOAD. Or driver debugging.

Linux is not perfect, my current laptop did not work perfectly until Ubuntu 22.04.

But your description of things is way hyperbolic.

I run Linux at work and did all these things in the past 12 months, twice in fact because my Ubuntu install just randomly decided to nuke itself. Still not sure what happened.