I would tend to agree with this. I just do not see myself going back to Windows any time soon. In my experience, battery use is comparable, and might be even be

I would tend to agree with this. I just do not see myself going back to Windows any time soon. In my experience, battery use is comparable, and might be even better on Linux with a few tweaks (powertop/tlp). Fonts are likely a matter of taste. I personally can't stand how they look on Windows, to the point where I had difficulties reading off one of my monitor (and none of the cleartype settings helped). Having quite different font rendering on multiple screens is something that highly annoys me. As for hardware, I was probably lucky, and use a nice DELL laptop from my lab. Sleep doesn't work on my Ryzen desktop, which I don't know how to debug, though it's only a minor annoyance. The general reason I use Linux (aside from philosophical/ethical considerations) is to get my system as lean or as bloated as I want, but always exactly know what happens on it, how parts fit together and be able to diagnose and fix a problem is one arises.