* (some?) LLMs run better on Linux than Windows - some people report a 50% improvement in tokens/sec.

Newest item to add to your list:

* Recall

A lot of that is nonsense. Only the ads and telemetry are issues, recent issues at that.

- The UI is emphatically not slow and is faster than the most popular DEs,

- Viruses and malware have not really been an issue in a decade and Windows has significantly better security than Linux at the moment,

- The Microsoft store is a first party packaging solution frequently used

- Real Windows > WINE

There are problems and issues to be sure, but technically it's actually very sound.

The Windows 11 UI is slow. The Settings app in particular is stupid slow.