Personally I would say it is incredible nowadays! Boots up nearly instantly, no bloat, no corporation harvesting your data via telemetry or shoving AI up your ass, infinitely customizable, can run nearly any program, can run on any hardware, there are distros for grandma that are dead simple to use and bleeding edge minimalist distros that you can build from the ground up with innovative environments that can change the way you use your computer. I use arch btw
Linux nowadays is damn great, and it changed positively by a lot from when I started out in the 00s. However I don’t see people considering Linux because of those improvements, it’s mostly to avoid something rotten in Windows - like two of the examples that you mentioned, data harvesting and forcing poorly thought features down your throat.
Personally I would say it is incredible nowadays! Boots up nearly instantly, no bloat, no corporation harvesting your data via telemetry or shoving AI up your ass, infinitely customizable, can run nearly any program, can run on any hardware, there are distros for grandma that are dead simple to use and bleeding edge minimalist distros that you can build from the ground up with innovative environments that can change the way you use your computer. I use arch btw
Linux nowadays is damn great, and it changed positively by a lot from when I started out in the 00s. However I don’t see people considering Linux because of those improvements, it’s mostly to avoid something rotten in Windows - like two of the examples that you mentioned, data harvesting and forcing poorly thought features down your throat.