It's truly incredible how we as humans can exist in the same world but have entirely different experiences. I never had the issues you listed in Linux, and my experience has been mostly stable (not saying no bugs, all software has bugs in 2023). But, oh my god, the few times I used Windows, I was continuously tortured by the unbelievable instability. On my Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Windows still displays the wrong time with Google searches leading to no solution. I used Windows for very specific reasons and I was hit with "hooly crap never fucking again". Now, if I need to use a program that doesn't work in WINE, I just explain to the person "I'm unable to do that because I have no interest in working with Windows". Recently, the US tax CPA I'm working with asked me to use a program to sign something that only works in Windows. After telling that, they insisted I must otherwise they can't file my taxes, so I had to say "no, I'm unable to use Windows, I have no access to it", so they found another way to do it.
It boggles my mind how someone can have the opposite experience.
>On my Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Windows still displays the wrong time with Google searches leading to no solution.
Were you dual booting Windows and Linux?
Linux assumes and sets the system clock to UTC, while Windows assumes and sets the system clock to local timezone. This quite often leads to one of the two incorrectly determining the time because of an incorrect assumption.
As for my personal experience, Linux is cursed. The thing breaks down if I so much as look at it weird; I don't trust anything mission critical to it anymore.
Windows, besides being practical and versatile and customizable, has been a paragon of reliability for me. Even Windows ME performed admirably for me way back in the day; no, I'm not joking.
It boggles my mind how someone can have the opposite experience.