My experience comes from previous attempts at using wireless headphones. It's just easier for me to plug in and not have to do literally anything else for a premium listing experience.
Microsoft is almost good as dead. These days, Linux takes just as much maintenance as XP used to. They've got maybe 5 years left until laptops start shipping with alternatives to Windows. My bet is it's going to be SteamOS.
I just installed Manjaro on my daily driver over the weekend. My entire steam library just works. My dev tools all work(better) on Linux, and free office is nice and familiar. Fuck widows.
Okay, I'll give you wsl2, and the "average user experience" being better, but Windows is losing its identity with the IT and customization front. For both destroying the win32 control panel and locking down the shell so you can no longer customize it.
Somewhat ironically OSX recently added widgets to the desktop. Something Microsoft did years ago, removed it for no reason, and then added a flyout to tick almost the same check boxes.
As for me, the spike in resource usage and over saturation of "AI" was enough for me to decide to jump ship.
I'm currently attempting to daily drive Manjaro so maybe my opinion will change, but so far, it feels like home.
My point is if you're paying anyone, it should be the maintainers and members of an open source project. But I've seen people host many other high bandwidth things for free so who knows.
Download the Mint live CD and give it a shot!