Yet, I'm still occasionally struggling with hardware compatibility and Ubuntu package manager issues. And I won't even complain about that one time I was foolish enough to set-up ZFS on a laptop: after all, it was offered in "Advanced Settings" tab and I should've known better. Suffice to say, that buying basic consumer-grade hardware I still cannot assume that it will work reasonably well with Linux.
Honestly, I'm almost for real offended by someone daring to say not having to spend my life solving Linux problems should be qualified as "boring" — especially when it's not the case, and when I still often find out that stuff that had me struggling with it for hours, days, or even turned out to simply not work on Linux at all — is basically plug-and-play on Windows. I mean, if you think about it, there's no reason to expect it not to be the case, but it is exactly the headlines like that, that trick you into believing this and buying stuff before meticulously googling everything and making sure it can be used with Linux in the first place (which is often not Google-able as well, when it comes to a bit less common items, than, let's say, top-100 products on Amazon).