Tempted to do the same. Like it’s a good OS but Microsoft seems intent to drive it into the ground by being insanely annoying. PowerToys is the only bright spot right now.

So I just tried KDE with Fedora 43 on a 4 year old Intel Dell laptop (I've used Linux pretty extensively for 15+ years). It's hilariously bad :

- I managed to make a process crash just clicking around the Settings app

- Sleep doesn't work (spins up the fans, then turns them down, then turns off off displays etc but I then the fan are spinning, so something is running). Looking at the menu, supposedly Firefox is 'blocking' sleep, but I blocked it, and that just meant the fans stayed spun up during sleep. Wtf?

- Monitor connected via dock via USB-C only worked after I plugged it directly into the laptop then back into the dock

- WiFi is preferenced over Ethernet (?!)

- KDE default panel is 'floating' which means wasted pixels below it. Looks ugly and wastes precious vertical space. And the blue highglight of the active window is over the top. And the default panel height is 44 pixels!

- Default fonts especially in Konsole look ugly on a 1920x1080 laptop LCD.

- Booting takes forever

- Impressive it can stream to Homepods out the box...but it cuts out when you open the sound widget in the taskbar. And also at random points

- The default pop-up notifications are too numerous

- The Night Light quick option is to suspend it, not to enable it. Which is interesting, as it's not enabled currently. I want to enable it! There is no option to once-off enable.

EDIT:

- And during boot, the LVM2 unlock is only shown on the built-in display. Then the Login Screen is kind of mirrored, but updates are only shown on the external display ?! (ie password characters not filled in on the built-in display). Very odd

I love Linux, and MacOS might be turning into iOS and becoming buggier, but MacOS has none of those issues.

This rings true...outside of users that play competitive FPS...the anticheat continues to be a challenge

As a side note - if you're in that venn diagram overlap group of linux and gaming...check out "beyond all reason" RTS if you haven't. High chance it'll tickle you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wxwIxz4PaY

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Last year I got a laptop with Linux, after a Mac gap of 6 years (work) and it's been super smooth with NixOS and KDE.

My main issue now was the 16GB of RAM using a VM and working on rust, which would kill the system, but now I have more, so all the issues are gone.

One of the machines has become a media-center, with a remote keyboard, anyone at home can operate now.

Multiple screens, bluetooth, drag and drop, night/light all seems to be working

It will be mine as well but only because consumer agentic AI became available and good. Only it makes all quirks and hardware incompatibilities bearable. I tell it to investigate the problem and it does an incredible amount of digging to help find the cause and eventually, after several iteration, either fix it or implement a good enough crutch. Even then it takes minutes to hours and I would take months.

BTRFS is certainly adventurous. That's one way to make sure you have a good backup policy in place.

Corey (a character of mine) says stick with ext4.

I have to use Windows sometimes at work, and of all indignities, this is surely a small one, but it is an indignity. Everyone complains about ads, which is a real issue, but to me the biggest issue is how blatantly suboptimal everything is. Nobody has put any effort into making Windows good for a very very long time. The terminal and/or powershell is incredibly slow - ls should not take perceptible time to execute. The settings menus are made with 3 to 5 different layers of UI frameworks and design guidelines. Forced OneDrive. The pestering about copilot... I even like LLMs, but my user experience is so clearly subordinate to some KPI that it annoys me anyway. I'm sure I could come up with more if I had touched it recently, but I thankfully haven't.

For me Windows XP was the intolerably ugly release that made me switch once and for all in 2002. Never looked back.

There are still so many issues around Wayland and fragmentation. Gnome is the most popular and has lots of issues and sometimes is downright user hostile. Luckily some of the distributions try to revert some of the insanity sometimes. But there are still many protocols and portals needed and much more standardization.