Long time LINUX user - its all true - but you do hit stumbling blocks. But there is usually a solution.
EXAMPLE: Love Linux Mint - but they don’t have a good file picker dialog. This stinks when trying to upload multiple pictures to say eBay for example. There is no preview mode - best you can get is smallish, but useless, thumbnail. SOLUTION: The only combination that offered dialogs I wanted was KDE + Chrome. And even that took a few trips to the settings panel to get it working as I like.
I’ll say this - of all big OSes - LINUX is pretty much the easiest to install and manage.
But yeah - I’m pretty much all in with KDE.
Here’s the only things I do that necessitate a Windows Machine
1. Reaper - Multitrack recording software
2. Ulead Photo Impact - Win98-era pixel editor software
3. MS PowerPoint - presentation software
But note - none of those necessitate network connectivity.
And each task is a seperate work station
Hence these Windows machines almost never see the internet - and thus, keep working!
KDE Dolphin has a preview option (and you can resize too)..