I’m sorry you had those issues, I know the pain, browsers have been a compromise for me on nvidia hardware and it seemed like I was the only one with a problem when searching for a solution.
If you ever decide to try again, cachyos is the only OS ive tried where browsers don’t lag or drop frames (mostly, still something ocassional but mostly unnoticeable) so you might want to try that in your next attempt? Whenever that happens.
I’m sad to see so many comments lashing at you for expressing your opinion, but I’m glad to see at least a couple more reasonable ones. Hopefully next time you try there are more people ready to welcome you with open arms.
What drove me to linux more than anything was my profound hate for windows (which preceded me ever trying linux by a handful of years), I just couldn’t fathom how so much money and r&d could culminate in such garbage (my opinion), there’s no good reason for most problems to exist, at least when something happens in linux I know it’s mostly a coordination problem between a dozen of unpaid developers that do it for the love of the game and have no relation or communication with eachother.
I’m glad to see people open to trying alternatives to it, mostly because I don’t think anyone deserves suffering through windows.





IMO, that’s the lesser of two evils. Start first, get annoyed with nuance and tedious internet arguing later, if you’re content enough before reaching the latter, that’s a win in my book.