The article makes no real attempt to give an explanation answering this. All we are treated to is technical jargon and some vague generalities that the article says in one of the headings is “Not the stuff for newbies”.
Here is an excerpt from a poster in an amusing Quora discussion that was on the same subject where people actually make an attempt to compare Linux with Windows.
Daniel Georgiev, Forbes 30 under 30, TEDx speaker, Founder of IrisTech.co Answered May 4, 2018
“Like everything Free, Linux is too complicated with no documentation and you need a doctor degree to install a text editor.
The only real advantage is that you don’t pay for it. Aside from this everything is well nothing special.
I won’t go into much details but here are some of the points which a lot of Linux users say always and the real truth.
Faster
Linux is faster because it’s just not backward compatible.
While Windows has tons of gigabytes unused data after update this is just to save your whole information from disappearing.
With Linux your PC just decides to crash one day and you lose all your files.
Viruses
There is no point to make virus for Linux, because it can’t even start on most of the distros.
It’s not like you can’t make a virus, but you need to make it and rewrite it for every kernel, because the ecosystem is so segmented that you will constantly get missing libraries and segmentation faults.
Customization
Most of the time limited options are better than huge customization because with great customization comes great risk of breaking everything.
Packages
Millions of different versions, millions of different commands and in the end of the day nothing works.
Software
These things are also bad from developer point of view and I’m talking from my experience here.
You just can’t make a high-quality software because you need to build it for every individual kernel and distro and for every distro version.
Even if your project is open source you need to add tons of external libraries and they start to crash after 1 or 2 months.
I have a build of my software Iris for every distro and every version and it still crashes on every new update which is like every month." from, https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-advantages-of-using-Linux-rather-than-Microsoft-Windows
“Like everything Free, Linux is too complicated with no documentation and you need a doctor degree to install a text editor.”
Say what? I’ve never seen a graphic version of linux that didn’t come with a text editor and usually a more powerful version than notepad. If you want something different, you open Software Manager, type in text editor and you’ll get a dozen results and all of them are safe to use. Hard to find free windows software that doesn’t come with a virus, malware, spyware etc. I remember the good old days when download.com had some decent stuff but at some point it went downhill. So now you have to pay for something safe.
Where people get confused is in having too many choices with linux. 10 different distros and each one can run one of a dozen text editors, from the basic notepad type to the type for programmers with line numbers, syntax highlighting and more.
I use Leafpad for basic stuff and sublime for code. Mousepad is another good basic one but Leafpad takes less than a second to fire up. Gedit is a common one, Kate is another as is Nano.
Statements like needing a doctor’s degree to install a text editor are way outdated. Maybe 20 years ago it might have made sense.
I’ve been seeing quite a few linux posts here but most of them are too techy for me and I’ve been running linux as my desktop(laptop) OS for over 10 years. Seeing these techy articles makes people think you have to be techy to run linux.
Most people can’t even install an Operating System.
Now that's an incredibly ignorant statement from someone who has zero knowledge about Linux.
That’s utter garbage and false and outdated and would have been even 15+ years ago.