I never used DOS or Apple, but I used Windows from 95, XP, Seven and left for Linux over the Win 8 upgrade. I don’t remember flawless though. I remember multiple error messages you couldn’t figure out. I remember corrupt registry entries. I remember multiple reinstall from a cd or dvd to fix those problems.
I remember updates during the day, going to bed and still seeing it not completed when I got up in the morning. I remember needing to shut my laptop down but being forced to keep in on and wait as they had a surprise forced upgrade for me. I remember the ugly unusable GUI forced on my I hated, and I am glad that happened because I found Linux because of it. I have never looked back and never will.

There are point releases, LTS releases. semi-rolling/rolling releases. On point and LTS releases you can do clean installs (which I prefer) or upgrades. You don’t have to install alpha or beta releases. I mostly run LTS releases and never upgrade right away, I wait for the first point release. Linux is not paid, it needs users pt participate in finding bugs. Personally I don’t want to do that, which is why I wait. Yet I do appreciate those willing to do that. While you complain, Linux gives you options other OS’s don’t. Choice is great to me, but don’t blame others if you make bad choices. If you think those other high priced, locked down, you just rent your OS and don’t own it, then use them. No one forces Linux on you. You decide to dwell on the negatives, not see the positives. Yet the others you want to tout also have a lot of negatives.

I have been openSUSE Tumbleweed for some years now and not switching back!
It is just the best distro by far -and even more, due it has Yast! Make a life simple and keep rolling. Do the work you are about to do without thinking whats under the bonnet. It just works..

And no more hazzle on upgrade like in Ubuntu and Fedora. …every 1/2 year do the distroupgrade or use LTS and keep lacking the latest software. No. No more.

I mean… from one stable point release to another like everybody else? Why does it have to be a continuous, non-stop flow of data with the latest and greatest! Jesus F.Christ! Where is the middle ground? Is it any wonder why so many Linux users are years behind on their system updates? The most secure OS in the world… yeah, right. Not if it isn’t being updated?

Let’s fix this sh*t already instead of nodding like a bunch of insipid sheep that this is the why things are done.

There was, at least, one rolling release that allowed the user to roll back the update if anything went wrong. This is a compromise to the ret*rded way rolling releases are handled. Why isn’t this solution anywhere in the article for any of the suggestions here?