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That was exactly my experience giving Linux a try for the first time. I gave up but then decided to give it another try with Linux Mint. I've been using it for over a year now and I haven't looked back. There is a small amount of software that I just can't get to work on Linux so I have dual boot set up, but I found myself booting into windows fewer and fewer times. And now I'm at a point where I actually dread booting into windows. I't just doesn't feel like it's my machine anymore when it's running windows.
Long story short, give it time, try a few distros and you will eventually get used to it, at which point you will not want to go back to windows.
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).
Really? I have 4 screens hooked up and no problem at all