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Eh. It depends. If you have something exotic as analog mouse it just doesn't work on Linux.

And Linux suffers from OS version of Lisp curse - i.e. whenever two nerds disagree you get a new distro with slightly incompatible behavior.

Not to mention Linux breaks compatibility left and right, while Windows lives with its mistakes forever.




I was shocked when I was able to install Office 97 at work on a Windows 11 machine and… it “just worked”, paperclip and all the lame ways it tries to take over your desktop…




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