It really depends upon what you are doing with your machine.
If you're dealing with new hardware, situations like the one described in the article may pop up since vendors will focus their testing on Windows (and possibly macOS) so there is a good chance that it will work on the commercial operating systems but not the open source ones. That is going to be especially true to more exotic hardware since there will also be less testing by the open source community.
On the other hand, I find managing a Linux system significantly more time efficient. Some of it is because of the nature of open source. For example: installing, updating, and removing software is much easier since the licensing model allows distribution maintainers to create a universal software management tool. In other cases, it is simply because of the approaches typically taken by open source developers. For example: it is usually easy to copy configuration files from one system to another.
If you're dealing with new hardware, situations like the one described in the article may pop up since vendors will focus their testing on Windows (and possibly macOS) so there is a good chance that it will work on the commercial operating systems but not the open source ones. That is going to be especially true to more exotic hardware since there will also be less testing by the open source community.
On the other hand, I find managing a Linux system significantly more time efficient. Some of it is because of the nature of open source. For example: installing, updating, and removing software is much easier since the licensing model allows distribution maintainers to create a universal software management tool. In other cases, it is simply because of the approaches typically taken by open source developers. For example: it is usually easy to copy configuration files from one system to another.