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You know, I use Linux at work but use windows at home. I've been thinking of switching for a while. I think the thing that is going to push me over the edge is the difficulty that I have saving a file to my own god damned computer.
I love automatic backups to the cloud WHEN I CHOOSE TO USE THEM! I'm tired of Microsoft essentially holding my data for ransom, though.
Welp, they're never going to stop, and they're always going to get more intrusive. Linux is better than it has ever been! Give it a whirl. I suggest Pop!_OS for people who don't want to mess with their system, and Arch for people who love messing with their system.
Edit: Fedora is a nice middle-ground.
I'm on Garuda. For gaming, I think it's an ideal option. It's Arch based but comes with everything set up for gaming, and tools to install whatever you may need. I think it comes with the AUR set up automatically too (or it's an option that's easy at least), which isn't necessary, but it does have some things you may want/need for modding and certain (very few) non-steam games. I think RuneLite for Runescape I got from the AUR, or something like that.
I haven't tried Pop, and Fedora is alright though I personally didn't care for it as much.
That's an "I use Arch BTW", just with extra steps...
Fewer steps because it comes set up with a ton of stuff, but yeah.
Arch is (in)famous for how much you need to do yourself, but Garuda takes care of most of this.
You can make cloud backups whenever you choose on Linux whenever you want, even to OneDrive.
So far I've never had Bazzite nor Mint nor any of my software there force me to put things anywhere.
Just know the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe's software don't really work on Linux systems.