So instead of whinging about Windows, how about a thread posting positive experiences with Linux?
* What distro are you using? Do you recommend it?
* What apps do you recommend?
I'll start. I currently have Fedora Workstation installed on a NUC. It's surprisingly seamless, and they really have the app installation sorted. The Software app will find stuff in the repository and in flatpaks. (From memory, you need to enable the checkbox to enable third-party apps during installation.) It works with "Secure" Boot which can be helpful if you are dual booting with Windows. However, I'm going to go back to Debian and KDE, as I find Fedora/Gnome strangely boring.
Speaking of dual booting, I never dual boot. Just had too many times where Windows craps on the Linux boot loader.
For apps, the mainstay is Thunderbird for email, which also works on Mac and Windows. For browser I install Brave, for some reason I prefer it to Firefox. The rest is all also run-everywhere stuff: Sublime (text editor), GIMP (image editing), Inkscape (vector drawing), Obsidian (Markdown editor/viewer).
I use Resilio Sync to keep files in sync across multiple machines, but if I were starting again I'd try SyncThing first.
I'm not currently running "Office" software on Linux.