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2015... I was there back then, and let me tell you, the distribution landscape is very different. You don't have to rely on package managers to get your apps anymore because flatpaks and appimages are ubiquitous. Games went from having maybe a 50% chance to run with opengl to 98% running with vulkan ootb. Desktop environments have improved across the board with stuff like wayland and plenty of other good shit. And finally, linux itself has gotten much better hardware support. Seriously, you're doing yourself and everyone else a disservice by using 2015 as a comparison point.
Dude, you need to chill. Why not take a break and unclench you jaw and fists for a while?
This conversation doesn't deserve this level of blood pressure.
A decade ago you tried Linux and it was hard, try again or butt out. Windows has become even more of a privacy violating, data snorting, market manipulating whore in that time and it will not stop.
I'll bet they roll out subscription based drivers before you make a legitimate atempt.