I had Mint on a dual-boot with Windows where I used the latter for my work. Upgraded Mint to the new LTS version and during the process it managed to both break grub and somehow kill all the graphics drivers so I could no longer boot into Windows and I could only get Mint up as a command line.
No more Windows in under half an hour. And also hardly any Linux.
That was the end of Linux on the desktop as a serious option for me - it took a couple of days to get my laptop back up and running and that was time I couldn't get paid for. Combined with the extreme difficulty of getting an Nvidia video card working and trying to make it do anything useful with audio, it really brought home the old saying about how Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
