Bulletdust

The popularity of Windows is largely due to the fact it's pre installed on most PC's when you buy them, people literally think Windows 'is the computer'. Such popularity has little to do with Windows being a great OS. In many ways Windows is like McDonalds: It's not the best, it's not the worst, it just fills that hump in the bell curve.

Due to the fact Linux has no marketing department, it's unlikely this will ever change.

Survey says...No.

The only games that don't work are essentially the ones using DRM/anticheat implementations that don't support multiple platforms. Meaning more like 75% of all Windows titles work under Linux just fine.

Windows is definately not immune to sleep issues. I can state with absolute honesty that sleep under Windows never worked for me until the advent of Windows 10.

I can't remember the last time I had a sleep issue running Linux on any of my laptops, all with Intel iGPU's.

I'd rather stick my head in the rotating blades of a combine harvester than deal with HP printer drivers...

Meanwhile, Wayland itself is still in a state of perpetual beta and lacks basic functionality regarding a vast number of features.

NVIDIA user here, my experience is largely faultless and performance is great.

Games don't always run perfectly under Windows on release either.

I specifically remember one of the CoD games running just long enough to use up all my vram, whereby it would promotly crash. Took about about two weeks to sort that one out.

My tinkering under Linux consists of downloading a game under Steam, ticking a compatibility checkbox, and playing the game. For other launchers, I simply open Bottles and install the launcher of my choosing. Been playing Diablo 4 under Battle.net just fine since launch.

It blows my mind just how bad file system performance is under Windows compared to Linux. I mean, you literally have to have an SSD in order for the OS to be responsive. Granted, most have SSD's these days, but performance on spinning rust shouldn't be that bad.

I've encountered issues swapping a Windows install between machines equipped with an Intel processor to one equipped with a current AMD processor.

In the meantime, my KDE Neon install has been swapped between four different PC's now without a single issue.