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I just found every little thing so hard in Linux.
Screens, scaling, nvidia drivers, games... Even spent an hour on gnome trying to get my desktop background image to fill the whole screen instead of repeating to fill the space. Solution ended up being download an image editor and resize the image to be the exact same size as my screen resolution. Tried KDE and kept hitting 100% CPU bug
In the end I just wanted a pc that worked, so went back to Windows with WSL.
Seems a perfect combo. Do my dev in WSL, and the desktop just works.
However I'm getting increasingly frustrated at every UI change Microsoft make... Which is what made me try Linux in the first place. If Microsoft Win7 and early 10 was great, I wish they'd stop touching UI and just improve under the hood
I honestly get where you're coming from as I went through a similar process of hating Windows, trying to make Linux work for me and just ending up back on Windows. I finally settled on Nobara Linux, but in my personal opinion it might be worth looking into Linux Mint for you if you want a rock solid distro. I installed Mint for my girlfriend not too long ago and everything magically worked with Nvidia drivers, wallpapers, Discord screen sharing, etc. I was so impressed that I considered distro hopping one last time.
Have you checked out ReactOS? I have no need for Windows in my life but find it fascinating.
Just curious.
ReactOS is fascinating, when I was younger and dumber I was optimistic about the project...but at it's current rate it'll never be an actual usable daily driver, and with Proton, the need for it is lessening, not growing.
No, already burnt out from reinstalling different distros. I try Linux desktop every couple of years and it's always the same frustrations. I'll give it another go next year