If you are worried about gaming or other apps, Win7 won't be much better than Linux (won't have latest DirectX or anything), and may end up far worse by then.
But I concede, not for everyone. But your hyperbole is plainly false and likely to deter folks who would otherwise thrive in Linux.
Can confirm it's a mess and there was no hyperbole in the original description. The only reason I didn't realize it back in the 00s was because I was only comparing it to Windows and pre-X macOS (well, and BeOS, but I was under no illusions that was a viable alternative). And, spyware and adware aside (not to dismiss those, they're why I still consider it unsuited for serious work) Windows got a lot better over that span.
In hindsight I can tell that I'd become blind to all the time I was losing to it. I'd lose 30 minutes or a whole day fucking with dumb shit that I never should have had to, and a week later I'd have told you "no, Linux isn't that hard to keep up!" I'd trained myself to avoid doing a bunch of stuff with my computers because it would rarely work and often trigger glitches or crashes (like drag-n-drop operations). Now, when I periodically go back to it, that stuff slaps me in the face so hard it's impossible for me to miss, now that I'm not used to being slapped in the face daily. Missing functionality and software doesn't help either.
For those wanting to try Linux coming from Windows, I recommend latest fedora with kde. You will get good support for latest hardware and kde is close to Windows and just works.
Besides, I simply don't like the approach Linux takes to desktop. The desktop should be part of the system, not a bunch of loose add-on components that you can mix and match and pray they work together.
