Distro-hopped a lot till I landed on Manjaro with XFCE desktop environment. Been daily driving it for about a month now without any complaints. There is an option to install with NVIDIA drivers as well.

Jut put my Mother on mint. Her windows 10 pc is reaching EOS, and I finally convinced her that having to buy a new computer every several years is unacceptable.

God I hope there will be a good enough solution for professional audio stuff when Win 10 is done. This and when will the new proper CAD software.

It sucks ass, but I don't see how one will be able to change to Linux in those spaces on a professional level. All my private stuff is on Linux systems, though.

Linux doesn't run what I need, getting some form of LTSC is my only option.

or a distro using kde plasma.

Ow I can upgrade, I just blocked TPM motherboard side to stop windows from doing it.

But in the end I really would like to give Linux a shot, these days I basically only play steam game or watch a movie, most of it should be easy enough nowadays in linux

Closer to the EoL time, someone is going to release a version of Linux that is basically windows, with a super locked down interface etc to make it so newbies can install and use with zero CLI or setup.

Or at least some serious consumer-grade onboarding.

Presumably it will have reduced functionality to make it as stable as humanly possible too.

And they'll probably become one of the larger distributions until people get the confidence to "upgrade" to a more complex one.