Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.
During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.
Before Pulse Audio sound on Linux was literally lame.
ALSA works better than Pulse Audio. Fite me irl
Sound was literally dysfunctional in Linux on a lot of hardware in the 90s. In the mid 2000s I had a RedHat enthusiast tell me that was all in the past, about 20 minutes before we hit a nasty hard to fix sound configuration/performance problem with RedHat on our hardware… Our “sound guy” can make ALSA work on our product, but it’s one of the more brittle parts of the system - anything changes he “has to get back with you…”