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Awesome.
In my mind Linux is something I use on servers, but on my desktop I'm far too used to Windows. And since everything I want "just works" on Windows I haven't really found the motivation to try / switch over to Linux for my desktop.
I've been running Linux on my laptop for years but not on my PC because I thought I needed Windows for whatever it is that I was doing. In December I challenged myself to switch to Linux for a month and I never really went back. I still have dual boot Windows for when I want to play some Valorant since that doesn't work on Linux sadly.
Awesome that it worked for you! I don't have the motivation to do that yet, maybe some day Windows becomes so bad that I actually want to switch.
My experience with Ubuntu was that it took me about as long to get it installed and set up the way I wanted as it would for a Windows installation. To get it up and running barebones is about the same as well, but Windows has so much bloatware and advertising that I refuse to allow on my computer. It also forcibly reinstalls software at every update that I removed previously because I just don't need/want it there.
I can respect the lack of motivation to commit to learning to use a new OS though. It does take some adjustment, and sometimes there's no alternative to specific software that you may need. For the most part though, it's a pretty seamless transition nowadays.