abagailsflorist
Having had to support Linux (RHEL) in an Enterprise environment, I can say that when it works, it just keeps going. When something goes wrong......yeesh.
I've had a bit of the opposite experience: ever since I started to use Linux, I've noticed just how hard it is to fix anything broken about Windows. Sure, when Windows works, it just works, that's kind of its appeal, but when something's broken, there's usually zero community discussion or documentation about how to fix it. Linux might sometimes be a pain in the ass to fix (though a lot less so these days...Linux has come a long way), but there's usually at least a lot of community support you can draw on to actually fix problems that arise.
rjohnson11
Linux has its place in the enterprise environment, but I don't recommend it for consumers.
I'd say there are definitely use cases for Linux with consumers, just not ones that are all that common in a community like this, with a lot of gamers with fancy new hardware. Besides the obvious appeal to enthusiasts and tinkerers, one of the biggest upsides of Linux is keeping old hardware functional with an actually supported OS. A lot of people don't like having to buy a new computer every four or five years, and you can keep old hardware alive for a remarkably long time with a lightweight Linux distribution. And since old hardware is typically the best supported hardware, you probably don't have to worry about anything not working out of the box. It's much better to use a current, lightweight Linux distro on older hardware than an obselete, out-of-service version of Windows that's not getting security updates anymore.
I'll grant you in recent years Microsoft has addressed many of the most glaring problems with Windows, so the case for Linux on the consumer desktop isn't as clear as it was back when Windows was an unstable, buggy, insecure mess of an OS, but Linux still has all the security and stability it always had, and its usability to non-technical users has come leaps and bounds past where it was just a few years ago.