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Linux.
While a lot of things do work, some only work ok with vendors not really worrying about a 2% and growing user base.
As a desktop, exactly.
I don't have time to play fuck-fuck with desktop stuff.
For servers/services, Linux is where it's at.
I really want to like Linux, I really do and I only ever install it on laptops that have aged.
But it never reaches my desktop, my mainstay, because it can't do 100% of everything I wanted to. One day, I sat down, opened up a notepad and tried to see what games or what software would work on Linux. My distro of choice would've been Mint, here. So, I found a detailed wiki and combed through what games wouldn't work outright, even with Steam installed. I counted about at least 20+.
As for software, there is no Notepad++ and I refuse to go without it or settle with alternatives. I don't mind alternatives, but I've been using a computer since I was a kid and for years I've had to move on from things I once cherished and happily had as my load-out series of programs to install. I'm just tired of always having to do it and I wasn't going to, to use Linux.
Linux just seems to me, to be best geared for lightweight users at best. Very few can wing it with no problem (obviously long-tenured users and/or programmers). If checking your mail, browsing and streaming is all you care about without the Windows nonsense, with some scattershot choice of gaming, then Linux is for you.
A bold opinion in these towers, for sure.
This is not true:
Everything else in your post is preference, which is fine. I do not understand the love for Notepad++ but that is your choice.
But when you said Linux is basically checking mail and the rare game, well that is nonsense.
I use Linux because I need reliability and no bullshit so I can do my work. I remote into all sorts of environments and deal with Windows often, I would never want any of that on my home or work computer. Windows is too slow and too broken for me to rely on for earning money.
But I also do all my hobbies: music production, photography, graphic design, 3d modeling, 3d printing, creating web pages, etc. There is really nothing I need windows for.
As for games: My library shows 1200 games ready to play, so I am not sure why you say "scattershot". I am playing the latest Resident Evil Requiem right now. Works perfectly, no set up steps at all.
So fine, maybe linux isn't for you, but no reason to spread fud.