It's not clear to me what SDesk has to offer besides good looks? Whereas Windows 11 is well-supported, and often available at little or no additional cost unless you're building a brand-new PC or server.
I recently installed Ubuntu on my 2-in-1 type notebook, and was impressed: It supports UEFI Secure Boot, and the wifi, touch screen and tablet-type features work! GRUB bootloader menu doesn't scale at all well on the 15", 4K display though, as the font size is minuscule. But to be fair, Windows software can also be a mixed bag with such a display.
But I run into problems when I make changes to typical *nix installs which aren't officially supported. Let's say for instance that I want to watch Netflix on my computer, and there's no official Ubuntu package for it. So if need be, I add unofficial software repositories, or failing that, compile the additional support libraries from source code. Great, so everything's set, right? Well, yes, until something breaks on a future update. At which time I won't remember what configuration changes and additional software I added. And when I get sufficiently fed-up, I wipe the whole thing and start over, vowing to never again make so many fiddly customizations!
NixOS is the distro that I've been meaning to try, as it seems to address those very sorts of concerns, even allowing me to roll back the OS in the event that I goof. But with those unique capabilities comes a learning curve unlike any other *nix that I'm aware of.
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