I'm nearing a year of using this Linux laptop as a 50% daily driver and I really have to say…

Linux's quality of life on an ordinary laptop is *embarrassing*.

Like, I'm able to use it. But it is embarrassing. No normal person would put up with the garbage desktop Linux puts me through. I put up with it because I'm stubborn and ideologically motivated.

@mcc I wound up going Kubuntu due to the interface oddities in Gnome. There were some window interactions I expected from Windows that didn't work right in Gnome. Dragging in/out of a compressed file, hitting a letter in the file explorer to go to that place in the sort (I'll click in search of I want to search).