That's way worse than Windows. All core Windows GUI components actually work and are stable. GUI wise, my Ubuntu 22.04 provided at work is way, way, more buggy than my Windows 11 Pro install at home. Don't know if it's Ubuntu issues, GNOME issues, GNOME extensions issues, Wayland issues, SNAP issues, pipewire/pulseaudio issues, or a combination of those, but as a user trying to get work done, I don't have time to debug which component of this bazaar engineering laundry list is at fault.

The whole point of Ubuntu is that you were getting older packages and components, but it was bulletproof, battle tested, working and stable. They seem to have lost the plot a while ago.

I can't even disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in lol.

Granted, Gnome has some stellar UX choices though, credit where credit is due, but if I were to recommend someone a Linux distro reagrdless of desktop environment, to it wouldn't be Ubuntu.