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I got some of your points. But Nvidia can be plug and play when choosing the right distro. AMD was always plug and play so I really dont know what issue you had or what distro. Not every Linux is simple.

Arch (EndavoueOS for user friendliness), NixOS or Gentoo dont really uninstall things you just needed. But I had this issue on Debian based distros. When removing one package, its important dependencies can be wiped too, deleting wifi and other important packages. It even says that but I dont like to read a wall of text. I hate debian for this but I would not argue against "Linux" as an entirety.

I tried to setup a very similar setup on Windows on my work experience and dragging windows with super button was possible with AutoHotKey, but was super Buggy. Rainmeter has many weird issues and stop working after updates, and may even force you to reinstall your Windows as a friend mentioned. Transparent Taskbar app was the same experience. What wasnt possible at all was super+right-click to resize the windows. So my workflow was not possible at all on Windows. Thats where Gnome and KDE are golden. Especiall with widgets and extensions enhancing your desktop experience further where I would need to deeply search and hack around in Windows.

Regdist was sometimes needed to be manually configured depending on what you wanted to do with your Desktop. So there is no install thing. But when something provides and needs the regedit, then it happens behind the scenes on the installer of the app, so you downplay the actuall issue and desire to change your desktop in an weird way.

In terms of Compilation. Thats where Arch Linux and many other distros are satisfying, community scripts with a push of a button (AUR). Combine this with Pamac or some other store and you literally have a push button to install complex things. I never compile things myself but just install the things through AUR and let the job be done.

I see that you have had harsh issues with Linux because you either didn't knew its alternatives or didnt understand the issues. I tend to rather have solvable issues on Linux than not understandable magic solutions that sometimes dont work on Windows. And you cant gain knowledge of the issue or solution as everything needs to be hidden and magic on purpose.

Linux is literally better on the Desktop Experience because you can decide how you work and how things should behave. Impossible for Windows except you hack yourself your C# dotnet application that controls your Desktop over the Windows API as mostly thats the only way for Windows. On Linux... you can choose your path. You can choose your Desktop, Distro, whatever. Things become easier and easier over time. But as an only consumer, I guess only Operating Systems like SteamOS are ideal. But many people show how they can live easier with Linux Mint or EndavourOS than Windows. Not everyone's experience.

And I already mentioned why I dislike Windows. Once you have control over your workflow, you will want to have it everywhere. Unfortunately, Windows wants to be a one size fits all OS and doesn't let you change much unlike Linux Desktops.