I switched to fedora (with no nvidia or however you spell the company I avoid) and everything mostly worked as it should, and when I had questions about how to do X or Y I could actually find answers online like I could on old windows (after like 7 it became “reinstall for every little issue” any time I searched for windows help. Great.) Did I have to learn how to access my com ports to use CHIRP to program a baofeng? Sure, but now that I know my user needs to be added to the dialout group, I’ve both learned something and solved the issue within 10min. Did I also have to figure out how to install the drivers for the CP210X to UART bridge on windows? Yes, and Fedora came with them (or somehow didn’t need them.) And don’t even get me started on fixing a broken flash drive with Diskpart instead of gparted or KDE partition manager, ugh. At least windows is insecure and let me mount my drive bypassing my windows pin through a live booted linux distro to save my data when w10 decided it can’t get past the login screen anymore, so that’s something!
Ymmv, but your experience isn’t universal (nor is mine) and windows can also come with it’s own headaches (and spyware, and resource hogging to run said spyware…)
I switched to fedora (with no nvidia or however you spell the company I avoid) and everything mostly worked as it should, and when I had questions about how to do X or Y I could actually find answers online like I could on old windows (after like 7 it became “reinstall for every little issue” any time I searched for windows help. Great.) Did I have to learn how to access my com ports to use CHIRP to program a baofeng? Sure, but now that I know my user needs to be added to the dialout group, I’ve both learned something and solved the issue within 10min. Did I also have to figure out how to install the drivers for the CP210X to UART bridge on windows? Yes, and Fedora came with them (or somehow didn’t need them.) And don’t even get me started on fixing a broken flash drive with Diskpart instead of gparted or KDE partition manager, ugh. At least windows is insecure and let me mount my drive bypassing my windows pin through a live booted linux distro to save my data when w10 decided it can’t get past the login screen anymore, so that’s something!
Ymmv, but your experience isn’t universal (nor is mine) and windows can also come with it’s own headaches (and spyware, and resource hogging to run said spyware…)