> Samsung stopped making drivers for their MFCs so I needed to toss a perfectly working laser MFC because it stopped working with Linux, just like that.
Erm... The old drivers stopped working with this particular device?
I had a very similar case with perfectly good HP laser printer, which doesn't
work on Window 10 anymore because... dunno? No drivers from HP, though. I'm
sure it would work just fine with generic PCL or PostScript driver under CUPS.
> Later, a HP MFC caused endless pain, seemingly every other Arch update broke one of Bluetooth / printer of MFC / scanner of MFC.
Well, that's probably self-inflicted because of your choice of Arch, not
because Linux (e.g. Debian).
> Plain Wifi eventually worked more or less (but see the endless string of bugs with 5GHz) but enterprise wifi always has been a pain.
Enterprise Wi-Fi has always been a pain, also under Windows.
> The strange F5 VPN our company used was not particularly Linux friendly
VPNs are usually that way. Very few companies can write sensibly working
software that would run under Linux.
> -- I could only get it to work by running Firefox as root (yuck!).
You get pretty much the same under Windows, though you don't see it as
clearly.
I don't get why you bash Linux. Windows has the exact same problems.
Erm... The old drivers stopped working with this particular device?
I had a very similar case with perfectly good HP laser printer, which doesn't work on Window 10 anymore because... dunno? No drivers from HP, though. I'm sure it would work just fine with generic PCL or PostScript driver under CUPS.
> Later, a HP MFC caused endless pain, seemingly every other Arch update broke one of Bluetooth / printer of MFC / scanner of MFC.
Well, that's probably self-inflicted because of your choice of Arch, not because Linux (e.g. Debian).
> Plain Wifi eventually worked more or less (but see the endless string of bugs with 5GHz) but enterprise wifi always has been a pain.
Enterprise Wi-Fi has always been a pain, also under Windows.
> The strange F5 VPN our company used was not particularly Linux friendly
VPNs are usually that way. Very few companies can write sensibly working software that would run under Linux.
> -- I could only get it to work by running Firefox as root (yuck!).
You get pretty much the same under Windows, though you don't see it as clearly.
I don't get why you bash Linux. Windows has the exact same problems.