I bought a new PC last year and I hate Windows 11 so much that it's got me eyeing Linux again

You can always downgrade to windows 10

Alternatively, you can look at a price for price comparison and get some absolutely hilarious discrepancies. For instance, at the price of a full specs Mac pro, you can build a top end pc running dual 4090s. With some cash to spare.

I've never personally run into an issue that required a reinstall that wasn't related to drive corruption. Basically everything has been just a quick restart and the problem vanishes

This. Both macOS and windows out a huge amount of effort into making sure things just work. And that's extremely valuable to many people.

Yeah, your only options are really a) get something to use it in, b) sell it, or c) save it as extra space for a rainy day. You're really not going to conjure up a novel use for an SD card