Re: Windows insider Program
Not always in my personal experience. I has an old Dell machine lying around, so I got a TP-Link wireless adaptor and tried Xbuntu on it to use as a simple email-and-browsing machine.
In spite of the packaging on the adaptor, it wouldn't run "out of the box", so I had to download and compile the drivers myself. I them had to rinse and repeat every time there was a minor update to the kernel. These updates often seemed to require a reboot (more often than my Win-7 laptop).
The system also was unstable - it often wouldn't recover from hibernation or sleep, requiring a restart. This was probably due to the old NVidia graphics card, which I later found out was dodgy.
I discovered the problem when I gave up on Linux, and installed Windows 10, which then BSODed with enough information for me to figure out it was the card.
Yes, I know that I probably did many things wrong, and a Linux buff would have figured out the card problem, but I'm a software developer, not a technician/engineer. I never even got as far as trying to write code for Linux.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
