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I'll use Linux for a few things and I do appreciate it, but it's probably never going to be my daily driver as long as I can keep Windows 10 running. I don't like using terminal for everything, I want to click stuff with my stupid 50 button mouse like a dummy, and I don't want to install dependencies every time I went to do something new on my computer, I just want it to come bloated with too many drivers to cover my bases for 90% of use cases and not have to think about it. Does that make me dumb? Maybe, but just let me be dumb. ๐คฃ
Not trying to convince anybody, but I decided to switch over to Linux on my personal laptop after having a terrible experience with a forced Windows 11 upgrade on my work laptop. I thought it would be more difficult, but the only time I had to even use the terminal was to maybe fix one of my internal hard drives not auto mounting, and to get a couple programs working. 90% of all my apps work out of flatpak/pre-installed "software store" in Linux Mint. Even been doing some moderate gaming on Steam, and everything just works, mostly. I actually got Outer Wilds working better in Linux than in Windows. There are some oddities, but I am sure they're only "odd" because I've been using Windows since like 1999. I am confident the only thing I'll ever need Windows for is my work laptop and maybe MS Office. I can do 95% of stuff in the brower with MS's online Office 360, but there are some deficiencies.
I am excited to be slightly challenged with a new OS experience!
These two statements are at odds with each other. If you did use Linux at all you would know everything else you said is false.