As an SRE I did most of my work from windows as almost all of my jobs required it (only one provided a working Ubuntu laptop). Mostly used it only for firefox a

As an SRE I did most of my work from windows as almost all of my jobs required it (only one provided a working Ubuntu laptop). Mostly used it only for firefox and PuTTY. At home it was W10 + WSL or virtualbox but mostly used it for games initially and then browsing. BUT as from W11 which I tried for 11 minutes, I switched to Fedora and didn't look back. Everything felt buggy, start menu taking forever, buttons switching places, apps wouldn't start but then randomly would, and of course ads. I know there are debloat scripts around but didn't have the patience, I felt if I'm going to try a new OS I might as well try Linux before buying a Windows license. Now Linux has its issues, the occasional icon disappears, sometimes shutdown doesn't entirely shut down the machine and I have to power the machine down (electrically from my outlet), sometimes updates don't go through, and of course I miss excel and a couple other things (although I was far from a power user and OnlyOffice fits my needs). But it's still better and with KDE there is almost no config to get a similar "feel" as W10. Amusingly I actually use MORE apps now that I trust installing new stuff more. That said I would probably pay a premium to dual boot occasionally on a supported Windows OS without bloat, probably it would be my default boot even.