I can totally relate to the "time is precious" part. I've moved to Windows as my primary desktop, with WSL2 in there for the tech work. When I need some serious Linux computing power, I go spin up an AWS instance.
I feel that the issues you ran into represent very well the underlying reason that The Year of Linux Desktop never came. There is a lot of mundane work, and nitpicking-level attention to the details, that needs to go into making a great desktop system. And that unfortunately is not the strong suit of the Linux development community.
I can totally relate to the "time is precious" part. I've moved to Windows as my primary desktop, with WSL2 in there for the tech work. When I need some serious Linux computing power, I go spin up an AWS instance.
I feel that the issues you ran into represent very well the underlying reason that The Year of Linux Desktop never came. There is a lot of mundane work, and nitpicking-level attention to the details, that needs to go into making a great desktop system. And that unfortunately is not the strong suit of the Linux development community.
Unfortunately, I agree. :(