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used both for many years. after windows 11 telematics and the rise of proton/vulkan i finally made the full %100 switch last year. Part of an effort to completely remove FAAMG from my life. Also, for me at least there's nothing like the feeling of solving your own issue and having the machine working as well or better than windows. Windows crashes all the time as well. remember the Blue-Screen Of Death? I had one laptop for years on windows that required dongles for bluetooth only to discover it had a latent bluetooth adapter AFTER i switched over to linux that was not even listed in the manual or parts list.
Knowing your not sending everything you own to some server in redmond washington, fuck microsoft. its a way of living, not having to rely on some corporation for everything, instead i rely on GNU...
combined with airgap methods, redundancies, ad hoc solutions and robust piracy method, linux os is just one part of a clandestine operation.
also debian, linux MX rn
check out distrowatch
My Windows is so stable it's travelled the same SSD into 3 different machines. I don't have a clue how many years ago I made the initial install, been at least 8. I also can't remember the last time I had to troubleshoot an OS issue. Trying to think on it now, no idea, but it's certainly been years.
The BT thing is funny. I promise it was in Device Manager from day 1. Gave my daughter an old laptop with Mint on it, took me an hour to get the BT working. Know how I did it? After much research, it turned out I merely needed to keep repeating the same fucking command until the OS recognized it.