Aside from forced updates, and a few bugs that may be as much the proprietary app's fault as the OS, I don't see an issue here. When I use Windows, it generall

Aside from forced updates, and a few bugs that may be as much the proprietary app's fault as the OS, I don't see an issue here. When I use Windows, it generally works. It's not as nice for developers as mainstream Linux, where you can just build your deb package with a dependency on PyQt and the system can figure it out, but from a user perspective... stuff seems to mostly just work. Linux Mint is just a bit better in recent years, but Windows is mostly OK and still does some stuff better than others.