My experience with Linux (dabbling frequently over the past decade and some change) has been extremely variable. When it’s solid, it’s extremely solid, but more

My experience with Linux (dabbling frequently over the past decade and some change) has been extremely variable. When it’s solid, it’s extremely solid, but more frequently there were weird quirks of some type or another. The best experiences I’ve had are on Intel machines lacking dedicated graphics (iGPU only) with Intel networking/Bluetooth. Any variance from that increase chances of oddities, especially if your machine has the misfortune of being built with Broadcom hardware — though it’s not too difficult to get most Broadcom wifi/Bluetooth working, it’s likely to stop working after random updates. Nvidia GPUs with multiple screens can act weird (at least under X11), especially if you have more than one GPU. AMD GPUs are better behaved but still not as smooth as under Windows or even macOS. Laptops come with their own quirks too, like one of mine has volume buttons that might or might not work depending on which DE you’re running or if you’ve got the right daemon running in your minimal WM setup. And of course the DEs themselves have bits of weirdness. The most functional with fewest oddities I’ve run is XFCE, which might be boring by the standards of some, but it feels like the team behind it has its priorities more in order than those of either GNOME or KDE. Cinnamon is a strong contender but from what I can see lacks resources. Pantheon would be nice but has a few (to me) fatal design flaws. I could probably replace Windows with Linux if I really wanted to because I can deal with most of the quirks, but it’d be better if I didn’t have to. Even as someone who likes tinkering with computers, it’s nice to not need to tinker.