Mine is simple: I'm used to it and my favorite games I play only run on linux with specific modifications that I have no time to figure out on a system I am unfamiliar with.

Time is the constraint. As a teen I would have simply taken the time to figure it all out.

Now as a family dad with very limited time I simply need something that works for me instantly out of the box with functionality that is at least familiar. Not just for the OS but any software on it.

Well, there is no need to justify a decision for personal use. But keep in mind there is plenty of corp software that literally can not run on Linux. Believe me, I tried.

Look, I hate Windows; literally the only device I have that isn't Linux is my work laptop, and I purposefully leave it at the office. But this thread isn't the place to bring up Windows hate. Someone's trying to do a good thing with what they have, and, idk, doesn't seem the time or place to get converts ig.

The Windows 11 cope...

xbox controllers didn't even work for me half the time on windows. switch controllers are hit or miss, but for some reason ps5 and ps4 controllers have worked flawlessly for me, just plug n play on linux. windows my ps5 controller was fine except the bluetooth would glitch after about an hour

I used to sell pcs at Sears back the day. There was this one weird family I sold a 486DX to and the wanted just one more peripheral..a scanner. You could return entire pc purchases at Sears up to 3 years later depending on how loud you'd yell... Us sales guys would lose the commission and we were straight commission those days so I got into pcs by keeping my stuff sold. They had to have a scanner and I went out to support ... Every trick in the book with himem and config..memory optimizers ... Couldn't get that IRQ .. all my tech buds tried too. Finally I gave them a free (pre release cus we had it for weeks) copy of win 95 all set up - because it could assign all those resources effortlessly without one text file. Windows wasn't always purely evil.