Everyone's mileage will vary to some degree and no one but you knows what your specific requirements are, obviously. I use Linux both at home and at work and o

Everyone's mileage will vary to some degree and no one but you knows what your specific requirements are, obviously. I use Linux both at home and at work and over the last couple of years have been pleasantly surprised how much the software gap has narrowed. A lot of this has to do with SaaS software which, ironically I don't like, but in a few circumstances it makes sense. Office tools at work, for example. If you're a G-suite shop Google docs and gmail will work regardless of your system, if you're a MS shop then Office, Outlook, Calendar and even Teams will run in a web browser. But even for native applications this gap has narrowed. Zoom, Slack and Discord all have native Linux apps that just work for me. Google Chrome, which I wouldn't use for my personal devices but I need to use for work as a Web developer, has a Linux version that works as great as the Windows version. But the most important part is that all of these tools are cross-platform now. There is no relearning a tool unless you depend on a native Windows app for which there is no Linux version (which you likely do, from the sounds of it). The desktop environments are where the real differences come into play. I can't even comment there since I switched to Linux Mint MATE when Ubuntu introduced Unity years ago. I like MATE a lot but I customize the hell out of it to suit my needs and I'm hardly qualified to have an opinion about what other people should be using. I did, however, recently decide to go with KDE Plasma for a TV streaming device that I put together. It's a small, low-powered machine and I didn't think I'd consider KDE because it's kind of notorious as a resource hog. But I needed something that could give me a good UI for a TV and remembered that Plasma supports desktop widgets and is highly customizable. So I tried it and was pleasantly surprised how performant it was. That's how quickly things change. The last time I tried KDE on a desktop it was sluggish and I didn't care for it at all. But my information and pre-conceived notions became outdated. Not telling you to try Linux again. Use whatever works for you. Just sharing my experiences for conversation.