Every time I sit at the computer it's a "zen garden" type experience.
Yes there are bugs here and there but a bit of patience helps and, because it's open source, you can even contribute to maintaining the zen garden, which is also beautiful.
I don't want to be forced to do that whenever I find something missing, though. Sometimes I'm just trying to get something done and don't have the time to dive into an unfamiliar project and recompile parts of my system.
In open source software, you can report it and get feedback on your report, and even see progress/timeline (or lack thereof) of it being fixed. The fact that you can say "well i can tell this is a one line fix, let me just PR it" is just an added bonus.
On Linux it varies widely by software, but a ton of maintainers don't have time for your issue because they're busy fixing their own, and they expect you to fix your own as well.
Neither one is perfect.
Things have improved a lot.
As for the last time I used Linux, it was just earlier this year when I tried Fedora Silverblue. The Nvidia driver just Broke when I swapped motherboards, and since the system is immutable, I couldn't even attempt to debug or fix the problem.
Of course, immutable distributions are the only ones that have that specific problem, but I haven't found a distro yet that doesn't have some problem.
I will admit, though, that GNOME Wayland is a better DM than Windows, for sure. And its trackpad support is comparable to macOS. (As in it has plenty of convenient gestures, supports right-click-drag, which Windows does not, and even supports middle-click-drag, which neither Windows nor macOS do.)
IIRC, the new driver is "open source" because they moved the important bits into the firmware