Well, Linux is not that bad. Have a look at
this distro made in France. Rodolphe Bachelart had been doing this since 2012. His latest distro is a 2 in 1 - Gnome and XFCE together in one. His distro can be run on tablets too. We can install it in a "Windows" computer and dual boot. Wish I could do that in my MBP.
It's political when people say: I like Apple's products but their policies towards customers, repairability etc. are abhorrent.
In fact Windows has gotten terrible in the last years while Linux has improved a lot especially for end users.
Remember when the only games you could play on Linux were UT and Quake (in a nutshell)?
Windows isn't terrible and Linux is great if all and I mean ALL of your hardware is compatible. Even then a bad kernel update can bork your entire system.
The problem with one man distro's is they are dependent on the one person and generally they are not getting paid and at a certain point they may stop and the distro could end and I personally like team projects as more eyes auditing and compiling the software the better. I also like foundational linux distros like Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, etc.
Linux on the desktop has improved a lot but still has the same issues like fragmentation, different distros running different package managers and on different architecture like slackware vs Mandriva or Debian. If you have a desktop Linux is most likely most compatible but then you still have to deal with software incompatibility. Banking software may not work even on a browser in Linux for example. Have printer, hope it works with Linux.
If you have a laptop and it has any special functions or keys that control the hardware, brightness controls, volume, sound cards, wifi, etc may not work and you may not ever get it working. If you have a laptop built for Linux then it isn't an issue but there are few brands that sell Linux laptops and those that do aren't cheap and often times have old or cheaper hardware.
Windows on the other hand works. You can not only turn off any ads anywhere in Windows in the settings easily but you can disable telemetry altogether with a couple of registry modifications. Most laptops running Windows will be supported for many years. I don't have major breaks in my system with Windows updates and if I do most of the time I can go back and I can't do that in Linux. Windows has improved a lot over the years. There are a ton of things I think Microsoft should do to improve Windows instead of AI> like clean up the menus, settings and control panel and make it all one UI, maybe I don't know introduce a new Windows kernel?? NT has been improved over the years but I think it is time to at least try to improve the internals of Windows. How about an improved file system? What if regular 64 bit x86 Windows supported ARM? Continue to improve security and PRIVACY. But I like the changes in Windows 11 and hope they just continue to polish the details of the OS and as I said start to improve the internal workings to speed things up and improve efficiency.
But overall Windows allows more choice and freedom while being extremely stable and secure. NO OS is perfect and all have areas where they are better than other OS but on the balance they are all about equal with one exception.
MacOS and Windows are generally supported both by many accessory brands and peripherals but also with tons of software. This lends itself to a very important part of using a computer. compatibility and how many other people are using similar software? Why does it matter? Business. If you are doing anything that requires communicating with another computer and it requires specific platform related software most likely Linux if off the table. Sure Linux powers the servers but most businesses use Windows and more are using Macs but few use Linux desktop and Linux software like LibreOffice. So sending files in the correct format and being able to do things business related is a very big part of using a computer and if the software I am using is creating blocks instead of just working then that is a problem. In my personal experience over the years this is the biggest problem with having a Linux desktop for my personal use is trying to operate in the business world. It can be done and there is plenty of Linux software but the quality of that software and compatibility with proprietary software is not always good. And personally I am too old to always be looking for work arounds and band aids to things that should just work.