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Sometimes a good way to 'learn Linux' is to use a WM
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Doing things the "easy way" is not "lazy" but thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. This is why there will never be a "year of the Linux desktop", because it's developers insist on doing everything "the hard way". In an ideal OS you never have to learn to do things the hard way because the easy way works just as well without starting a new career in Linux programming.
The problem is, in Linux once you know how things work, most things are pretty easy. In Windows, even when you know how things work, if you want to change your system at all you're fighting the OS the whole way.
For example, in Linux it's trivial to set up my notifications to be in the bottom middle, except when I'm coding to have them in the top right, with various hotkeys to manage them. Or to have custom window layouts. Or to do anything, every part of the stack is easy to change. On Windows you just get a blob and it assumes everybody wants it to work the same way.
Not sure what problems you've had with Windows, maybe some special use-case. The only problems I've had is uninstalling Microsoft's garbage. And of course the two parallel settings menus for some ungodly reason.
I listed two examples of things right in my post.
That's not "fighting the OS", that's just a lack of customization, which falls squarely under "nice to have" and about 394829384 slots down from "OS that doesn't require a programming degree to perform basic tasks".