I've been distro hopping for weeks, both on my desktop and laptop, in hope to find some magic distro that would just work out of the box like mainstream OSes like Windows and macOS do. Maybe not the best strategy but honestly I don't really wish to spend hours to get the audio working just so I can move on and go fix the next issue.

I really want to use Linux for work so bad but all the issues I've encountered are setting me off:

1) Audio not working or distorted playback or recording 2) Not smooth animations and everything feeling jittery and laggy in general 3) Low battery life 4) Running jobs preventing the system shutdown for whathever reason on a fresh install

Also I've had problems with files management (eg: I once needed to copy a 1GB file to my USB drive, KDE showed an instant 100% progress but hanged there for minutes before I got frustrated and gave up) and window managment (eg: some programs are not maximed when I click on their icon in kde).

I've done everything in dual boot alongside Windows and, to be honest, booting back to Windows after trying a new distro made the difference really clear, Windows works much better out of the box. This is unfortunate because Windows will never provide the same development workspace that Linux can. But right now, it seems like the best solution is running an Ubuntu server VM.

Has anyone else experienced the same problems?