I just unplugged my SO’s PC to clean it and reconnected everything, and during startup, it spammed me w/ endless popups saying it “recognized X device” or whatever (it’s all the same equipment…). I just wanted to make sure the network was back up, but it kept covering the little popup window where the wifi settings were. I’ve never had this issue on Linux, on startup, things just work, no stupid popups telling me about it.

I haven’t done any encrypted volumes on Windows, but the rest have been about the same on Linux vs Windows. I had to install a driver for my Brother printer on Linux, but other than that, everything is smooth, just plug it in and it’ll probably just work (and Windows will “detect drivers” or whatever and spam popups to tell you about it).

So yeah, Linux just works for me, whereas Windows seems to constantly want attention. Both work fine, Linux is just less annoying.