Windows is stable/reliable/accessible.

It's not stable (servers run on linux) it's not reliable (autoupdates) it's not accessible (closed source)

Don't fall for the trap, it's not cheaper when you consider that you can do no upgrade and no repair

Sound like you are addicted to videogames

Linux, every time, without fail, commits suicide after a few weeks

You must be doing something really wrong with it because on popular distros this is not really supposed to happen. If you encounter such issues report them to the devs. You probably want to try a more stable distro

I would definitely argue that Linux has good music software… But better? By what metric?

By the metric that windows is a closed box while linux can be tuned to be a much better machine to play and make music. Not having the possibility to route audio is a joke and an even bigger joke is using windows to play live with 0 control over what it does

it’s just like a very strict parent that takes away all your gaming consoles and tells you it’s for your own good

That's exactly what companies do when they decide that you can play their games only on their platforms at their own rules

Such as windows?

Ardour, Pure Data, Jack.

"I’m a long time Linux user (since the 90s), former Linux sysadmin and a programmer so I know my way around a Linux system."

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0ad, Wesnoth, Endless Sky, Mindustry

Personally a game that doesn't run on linux turn me down so much that i don't want to play it at all. Check https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page

If you just quit reddit because they dropped support for same mobile application there is a lot you should learn. Learn what free software is https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software learn about Aaron Swartz.

There's Krita, Gimp, Blender, Stable Diffusion and more

Don't give up, it's easier than it seem you just don't know how to do it yet

They are more or less the same piece of hardware with different software in it. There are no reasons a console wouldn't do the same things that a PC does other than the devs put limits on what you can do with these. Consoles are crap made for stealing kids money

Not being able to play overwatch or any other blizzard/activision/vivendi/microsoft crap it's a feature.

Try again and learn from your mistakes. Installing linux is nothing compared to much more difficult tasks

There's plenty of games that are native to linux not made by companies trying to empty your wallet. https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page

Such as? Most of things work on linux too

Why does it only have windows drivers?

99% of the games that don't run as smooth on linux are games made for money by companies who think you are stupid and a junkie.

valorant

Stop wasting your time with products made by Tencent and the chinese goverment

Did you ask yourself why the wifi driver was missing?

Microsoft "community" is a bunch of salarymen who's job is to try to empty your pocket and boost the company profits at your expenses. Linux community is people helping you for free.

Hardware and software for music production is lacking in linux

It's not, inform yourself

It's most games that are unable to run on linux, not the other way around

Music production is much better on linux, step up your game and level up. https://kx.studio/

Lol as League of Legend? Isn't it that moba game owned by Tencent and the chinese goverment?

People capable of thinking

Have you tried asking one of these developers why they aren't allowing you playing on linux?

I need my games

What do you need them so badly for?

Is Steam a necessity of yours? Do you work in the videogames industry?

I have to have a computer science degree to install a peice of software

No you don't, you can search on wikipedia what a computer science degree actually is.

The reason you switched back to windows is dating girls?

bye bye