Your opinion seems to be immutable.
But I’m not rolling over.

Call Microsoft about a bug and tell me how well their support works for you.

Pretty well, actually.

Debian is the only distro in my recent memory that crashed into an unbootable state right after a default installation.
Manual Arch installation is tedious and unnecessary if you’ve done it once, and the automated archinstall fails too often. Other than that, I’ve had literally zero issues with it.

no, I don’t.

You pay for the convenience.
I don’t often need to print something, but when I do, it’s usually outside of the opening hours of a print shop and I’m in a hurry.
(95% of my printing are fantasy RPG floor plans that I’ve downloaded literally 5 minutes before the players show up.)

Prevention is key:
alias vim='emacs'

My friends call me “Please fix my printer”.

Just a shot in the dark, but have you logged out and back in at any point?
Some settings can’t be applied in a running session.

He’s the one who was prophesized in the GNU testament.

Prepare to be disappointed. This is how Linux disciples have sex (SFW).

All Praise Bob!

https://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/

Yes, IMO. If you haven’t bought the hardware yet, there’s no reason to subject yourself to the headache of lacking Linux support, instead support companies that value open source.
AMD and Intel GPU’s simply work out of the box with all features.

And it’s not like on a laptop you need the highest of high end graphics acceleration anyway.

Every once in a while I try out KDE cause I really don’t like the Gnome way of doing things on a workstation.
And every time so far I was sorely disappointed by how buggy it is all around.
At least default Gnome just works.

I always find it kinda weird when people criticize free software.
Like, the developers make something, give it to you for free, pay for server space so you can download it for free, and then you say “it sucks”.
OK, just don’t use it then.

My Ubuntu broke literally every time I did a version upgrade. It’s probably better now, but I’m not going back.
The last system that straight up broke for me was a default installation of Debian Stable, and that wasn’t long ago.

I understand Arch isn’t easy to use or maintain.
But in my opinion, if you use something wrong and it breaks, that doesn’t mean it’s unstable. And if you update Arch by simply hitting “pacman -Syu” every day, you’re doing it wrong.

Arch is the least buggy distro I ever tried.

Except for Slackware maybe. Slackware has literally no bugs. If it doesn’t behave like it should, it’s your fault.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

I’m sad that you have to throw out all the init scripts you’ve written in 30 years.
Maybe stick with Slackware? I’m pretty sure you’ll fit in well there.