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The performance comments were a dead giveaway.
Nobody's complaints with setting Linux up are that it runs slowly.
It may not run much of anything until you sort out your drivers properly, but it will do everything incorrectly LIGHTNING fast, compared to Windows.
I thought Debian was as sluggish as Windows until I was forced to use the LXQt desktop environment instead of the default GNOME on an old Compaq laptop since that's all it could handle. Turns out, GNOME looks nice but it kept my old laptop's mid-2000s i386 CPU churning at 50% 24/7. LXQt? Barely a blip. Sure, it couldn't run Firefox quickly, but at least its fan was silent when idling or when I was simply using the laptop as a dumb SSH client into a much more powerful remote server.
I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don't need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.
I mean, really depends on the device. I've got a machine running Mint and it kinda chugs along. But it's... I want to say at least 15 years old? Probably due for a RAM swap at the very least. Takes about five minutes to fully boot and if I run more than a few apps it drags.
At some point, there's only so much an OS can do for you.
The bit about incompatible drivers and the mess of third-party installs necessary to get it in a comfortable state also rang true. Plus all the minutea of configuration, so you're not typing in your password every time you sneeze. Windows does tend to come fully loaded out of the box, even if you're using a bunch of their mediocre native apps. And the desktop instance tends to be pre-configured to satisfy your average desktop user.
Of course, Apple takes all of this to the next level. Really straight jacking everything you can do so that it's a unform experience from device to device. And I hate that shit, too, even if my machine boots fast straight out of the box.
Not true. They complain because of no hardware decoding, defaults lacking GPU acceleration, they complain about KDEs file manager, Gimp, Libre Office, etc. If you had problems with Windows, maybe consider 'skill issue'.