> I'm still trying to make the full time switch to Linux
Just did that this year. After trying and failing every year I tried ubuntu + gnome + firefox, I succeeded by altering my choices: arch + hyperland + edge
I get the familiar pacman (used in MSYS2) and an UI that very closely matches my keyboard centric AHK configuration (no window borders, my most important apps run in fullscreen on their own workspace) in browser I'm used to (with my vertical tabs and groups, bookmarks etc).
I was using W11 Pro or Workstations before (so I didn't feel the pain home users have with disabled options or ads) and I loved windows, but the shady moves toward deprecating Office 2010 made me take a side as Excel is more important than windows to me.
Now Excel runs happily on Wine within wayland thanks to the HiDPI hyprland patches, I have a quaketerm very similar to Windows Terminal, and a sixel enabled terminal (wezterm) that's just as good as mintty for what matters to me (sixels, colors, italics, ligatures)
I still have some pains as moving to a different OS takes a lot of tweaks, but so far I'm loving it!
I would consider BSD for the native zfs support, but the lack of Bluetooth or SystemD and the pains to get modern options like Wayland means I won't.
It was removed from my start menu without me doing anything.
Also Microsoft has started deploying a special KB to figure out who's still using 2010, and there have been rumors it would get blocked in the future through another KB, even if it can run perfectly fine right now in Windows 11 as it did in Windows 10.
I like Office 2010: it's faster to start Word 2010 that even wordpad, so it's not a risk I'm willing to take. My bet on Linux (and wine to run Office 2010) has paid in spades.
I read something a few days ago how some developer at Microsoft had to explain why something wouldn't work on Windows for their OS designers who where all using Macbooks.
When I use MacOS and Windows these days I am baffled by the design choices.
It's like the design process involves the CEO, their yogi, and the finance department.
I have no idea what's going on but the big two desktop operating systems have gotten worse in the last decade.
Linux has been my last hope and it's getting to be passable recently, but there's a lot of work yet before I can make the switch full time.