I didn't have any trouble with the legibility of the text on Debian Buster using Gnome. There are the occasional screen glitches with things like the tree view

I didn't have any trouble with the legibility of the text on Debian Buster using Gnome. There are the occasional screen glitches with things like the tree view but mostly the experience on Windows and Linux is identical, which is the same as it was 25 years ago on Sun workstations.