Maybe it’s because I was last into linux more heavily 10+ years ago. But I am amazed at how distros work now. 15 year old wifi adapter that originally came with cd based drivers? Works perfectly without anything extra. Racing wheel i got on ebay? Works perfectly. Mouse, keyboard, tartarus, no issue. I am just very happy with how well linux has been working, and hopefully this will bring more people to make the switch. However, I have not had luck with vr (oculus. I hear index does better). Thats the one thing I do hope for more progress on.
A previous laptop I had came with win 11. At first I installed win 10 on it cause I needed that for work, touchpad just would not work. Finding the drivers for win 11 was already almost impossible without installing some shitty device detector program from msi, win 10 versions just did not exist.
Installed Linux on it eventually, and it worked perfectly out of the box.
Windows just isn’t ready for the desktop.