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A simple install of Debian + GNOME install (with all the defaults, easier to install than Windows) will provide you with a useful store that can even load flatpaks... and there's nothing that easy an practical on the KDE land.
^No extra package required
No it isn't. It is a piece of shit that does a garbage of a job to get Windows application to "run". It doesn't run old/basic applications well nor does it run useful modern applications such as MS Office without constant glitches and hours of hacking around
TL:DR; the Linux experience might be great but it isn't for everyone and anyone. If you need to do your job and not constantly be dealing with small annoyances that will curb your productivity it isn't, most likely, for you.
I use Linux at work because Windows has too many "annoyances that will curb [my] productivity". I can understand that it is not for everybody though.
Yeah, sure. Thing is: it isn't for:
Linux desktop is great, I love it but I don't sugar coat it nor I'm delusional like most people I see here.
If you live in a bubble where you don't have to collaborate with anyone else and you can use native Linux apps things might work, you might have a decent workflow and get stuff done but once you've to collaborate with other who use Windows/Mac it's game over.
When you get/install Windows you pay a minimal license and get things working out of the box without further issues. Getting software to run is easy all vendors support whatever you're trying to do and you get very high productivity from day zero. There are annoyances from time to time, sure, but they're way fewer and simpler to deal with than the hoops you've to go through to get a minimal and viable/productive desktop experience on Linux. And I'm even talking about all the situations where you've to collaborate with others and the "alternatives" aren't just up to it.
It all comes down to a question of how much time (days?) you want spend fixing shit in one platform that will be working out of the box in another one for a minimal fee. If you buy a Windows license and spend the time you would've spent dealing with Linux compatibility issues doing your actual job you'll, most likely, get a better ROI.
You make some good points - I don't think anyone can reasonably argue linux is in a state where a 'regular' user will find it more productive than windows. But, statements like these make as many assumptions about an individual's use case and workflow as saying 'everyone should use linux because xyz':
Again, it's certainly not reasonable to say linux is universally (or even generally) better for productivity. But neither is it reasonable to say it always isn't. Operating systems are tools, which one to use depends entirely on the situation.