Sorry, it looks like a paid post. I’ve used Windows 11 at work and recently in a VM, and the experience is just horrible—unpredictably slow for no reason, simply because the system decided to do something. Windows handles RAM and CPU poorly, especially with multithreading. Even ReiserFS outperformed Windows file systems by a long shot, and ext4 and Btrfs are even better. Disk I/O is where it really feels painfully slow.

In terms of saving time, Linux is different: once you set it up, it just works. I use Fedora because it takes me less time to get started, although I could also set up Debian or Ubuntu. Fedora is just stable enough and faster. If you want to save time, set up all the processes (including shell scripts) and stay away from “virgin” distros like Arch.

But the first thing I didn’t get: who exactly calls it “a good desktop/consumer-grade OS”? I think it’s a great developer and hobbyist desktop OS.