I share the same experience, but tbh, my almost every single laptop purchase was prefaced by hours or even days of searching the internet for other people's experience with Linux on a particular machine. Except the first one - and I got machine with broken ethernet, without having wifi at home. Have fun copying .deb packages over usb stick.

I bet you haven’t used arch over a long period of time, using nvidia cards, and doing music production.

I’ve spent days fixing issues after updating my system.

Linux is great, but it has many pain points, as does windows.

I don’t really think either is strictly less finicky or painful than another as long as you’re willing to learn a bit.

If you’re not willing to learn a bit, windows is definitely was.

Linux will always be cooler though.