Hell no.
Have been sticking it out as much as I can in Linux Mint lately, I can see the writing on the wall.
Sure, I've lost count of the hours I've wasted getting this or that to work right... fucking 4K video in any browser still don't work right, 4K video using mpv w/ yt-dlp still don't work right... but I've learned a lot along the way and I don't waste nearly as much time as when I started. The 4K streaming thing is really the only reason I restart PC and flip back to Winblows at this point in time.
I'm to the point where I can nearly complete an embedded PIC project from start to finish almost entirely in Linux... Microchip made their IDE compatible with Linux and the logic analyzer software I use also has a Linux version. Only part of my toolchain I'm not to do in Linux yet is to make schematics with Altium... it is the faggot piece of software that has no Linux version yet, so have to go back to Winblows to make the schematics. I fought with Wine and lost, trying to get that to work with Altium.
Had a good time doing Raspberry Pi C projects entirely in Raspian using just the built in IDE called Geany and GCC. Good enough for me.
Learning curve can be a bitch, especially when you're used to damn near everything "just working" with no effort in Winblows. Linux is getting better in that respect, though... Not everything is a bitch these days, a few things do "just work" right out of the box. Not like it was maybe 10 years ago when I tried and gave up on Linux as a serious replacement. I'm not a patient man. At the same time, I'm not too keen on Microshaft's latest bullshit. If I have to start paying monthly to use my computer, I'll gladly do battle with Linux from now on.
Check out Libre Office's latest release . Pretty dang nice compared to the stock version my Linux distro came with.
I take it Wine for Linux is okay then?
Couldn't tell ya... only thing I've ever tried to get running with it was Altium, I failed and gave up on that... More than likely not Wine's fault, dumbass me just can't figure the magic settings and commands to make it work with Altium.
Depends 100% on the application and the only way to know, is to try. For instance, Adobe Acrobat doesn't work (I occasionally need to edit PDFs and know that program the best since it's the one I used for nearly 2 decades), a few different trading apps work (Oanda, ThinkorSwim), and some Really weird stuff absolutely doesn't (IC programmer). Simple games seem to work fine, haven't tried more intensive ones as that's not my thing.
The more time you spend in linux though, the more you find yourself finding alternatives that are native to linix and learning them.
pdftk plus GIMP
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