Linux does not have certain applications I use all the time.
You can call windows 10 bloated but with today’s SSD, NVME, Optane drives Windows moves fast and boots up fast, as in 10-13 seconds.
I put a 256gb SSD in a 2014 Lenovo laptop, Windows 10, it moves fast now. Thus the old rap about Linux moving faster than Windows is no true anymore.
Its amazing how sleek and slim today’s Windows laptops are. Now that they deploy NVME drives, no more DVD players, no more detachable battery. The batteries are internal these days.
Desktops are sleeker too! A friend bought a new HP and it is half the size and half the weight of his old HP desktop he bought in 2010. He bought a high rez 27 inch monitor to go with it.
I have a laptop and desktop that have Intel Optane chip in them. The 16GB variety. The Desktop moves super fast because the Optane is enhancing a 7200RPM hard drive with a 64GB cache. Desktop boots up in 10 seconds.
The laptop is a bit slower because the hard drive it works with is the 5400RPM variety. 128GB cache iirc. But still fast boot times and fast responses.
I have run crystal disk mark for both and the desktop moves faster, has higher crystal disk mark numbers. Maybe 20% higher than the laptop.
So with conventional 2.5” SSDs that have been around for a while, plus the newer NVME and SSD drives that go into an M.2 slot, PLUS Optane chips. You have Windows 10 moving faster than ever and Linux has no speed advantage.
I boot my desktop at most every hundred days. The boot process could take 10 minutes (it doesn't) and I wouldn't give a damn. Of course, I run Linux. It simply doesn't require periodic reboots. I pretty much only restart on installation of a new kernel, and that is just my own paranoia. With a properly designed system, the time it takes to reboot is immaterial. I've noticed that it is mostly windows users who talk about reboot times.