Yes that is my next step. Am still debating whether Debian will be okay for gaming where it might need more frequent GPU driver updates.

Oh for sure and the learning curve itself is not the problem. But proprietary software is a big issue still. My brother had the exact same experience for his job.

And it makes sense, why would a company develop something on a platform that is not used in that company.

But it is a huge barrier. Need to run a dual OS or stay Windows.

On top of my mind are at least the following issues: Panel bar is not duplicated by default. Trying to copy it is the worst experience ever. Won't even be synced.

There is no time shown on the 2nd screen at all. What??

Some apps open randomly on primary screen and cannot get them to stick on 2nd depending on the app. Yes I tried. Firefox was the worst.

Dragging from one to the other or using shortcuts is far less intuitive and fast than Windows.

Couldn't change notification popup area to somewhere else.

Going from login screen to user select / power menu freaks out my DPI suddenly and makes it extremely frustrating to click a tiny button.

These are major issues IMO and I spent countless hours trying to fix them and they either wont work or so poorly I will not rely on it.

That being said I was planning on trying KDE plasma. Its just that literally everyone I spoke to told me Linux Mint is better than sliced bread and will solve every issue known to man kind. It was oversold and missed the mark by A LOT for me. It misses so many customizable settings.

Great choice for someone who literally has a laptop and only ever uses their browser I guess.

I need full customization in every regard and preferably basic stuff in a GUI. Cannot spend hours trying to find a terminal command that hopefully changes something and doesnt break or worse.

Imo, KDE handles dual monitors better than windows even, especially if your secondary monitor is a TV you enable and disable depending on what you’re doing.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh I need an alias to unfuck KDE whenever I unplug/plug back in the cable for my 2nd monitor

 alias kdereset='kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell'

Regardless, that is a friction they experienced when switching, regardless of who was at fault.

You're technically 100% correct. Yet it will not change my experience at all, like the other person said.

If proprietary tech isn't developed for it, how would you get the masses to use it? Windows is almost entirely enterprise now, too.

If you have the hard drive and RAM capacity, I can recommend WinBoat. It'll work on a machine with 8Gb of RAM, but it'll cost certainly a bit of a dog. 16Gb is cool though.

I mostly use it to listen to Apple Music, which doesn't have any other way of listening to lossless audio in Linux. But the Windows app works a charm.

Been using mint for the last few months after messing with raspian on some pis for a few months before that and the only time i had to log i to windows (dual boot) since getting mint was to play the original dungeon keeper in a network game with my son because for some reason the lutris wine/dosbox install wouldnt start a multiplayer match with the windows installed veraion on my sons laptop. Otherwise i have got everything i wanted working on there and its a much more pleasant experience. It feela like my computer again. Something i havent said since the end of windows XP.

Well, I have and I am in that situation. So it's not up to par yet for business purposes due to proprietary tech.

And Linux Mint I cannot get dual monitors to properly work (yes 2 screens, but every GUI element is prehistoric. Lots of issues).