It very much depends on one’s hardware, needs, and expectations.
Having the “wrong” hardware alone can significantly degrade your experience, as can distribution choice, with some not including the drivers (usually Nvidia) and/or configurations (e.g. h.264 hardware acceleration in browsers) required for a good experience. Same goes for laptop battery life, with some distro/laptop combinations being reasonably ok out of the box and others being a disaster.
From the perspective of things mostly working as expected regardless of the user’s machine, skill level, etc, Windows unfortunately still has a leg up. Windows can’t compete at all on the grounds of annoyances like ads, but for many if not most users that’s secondary to the OS running reasonably smoothly and being able to do what they need it to with minimal fuss.
Having the “wrong” hardware alone can significantly degrade your experience, as can distribution choice, with some not including the drivers (usually Nvidia) and/or configurations (e.g. h.264 hardware acceleration in browsers) required for a good experience. Same goes for laptop battery life, with some distro/laptop combinations being reasonably ok out of the box and others being a disaster.
From the perspective of things mostly working as expected regardless of the user’s machine, skill level, etc, Windows unfortunately still has a leg up. Windows can’t compete at all on the grounds of annoyances like ads, but for many if not most users that’s secondary to the OS running reasonably smoothly and being able to do what they need it to with minimal fuss.