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Working scrolling speed adjustment, TouchPad calibration, scrolling and gesture options, random wake from sleep issues on certain hardware, Wayland external display issues, finicky video hardware acceleration with browsers, wine/proton crashes, Bluetooth AAC, power savings with the latest CPU/SoCs. Few issues with dependcies and versions necessates a Linux VM for development anyways.

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These days add to that (on the Windows side) great screen recording API with native support for hardware codecs (personal thingie), perfect per-monitor DPI scaling, stable upgrades that don't make me reconfigure software sources and don't break the system, hassle-free TPM support for full disk encryption, easy to understand UI for LVM-like storage management (e.g. Storage Spaces), and a simple email client that does not make my eyes bleed.

Fractional scaling is also GPU accelerated (for battery life) on Windows compared to Wayland/Xorg in which only scaling in multiple is accelerated so far, there is some progress with Plasma (Neon Dev) for single monitor only.

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