I have used desktop Linux since 1997, Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo and Arch several times on a dual boot desktop on and off and on several laptops. And I lately and for a long time have been where you are right now: really wanted to make Linux work on my (travel) Thinkpad X250. But with Linux it's a constant effort just to keep things running. When last year after a full update of the system (Arch Linux) all kinds of nuts and bolts started to fall off from under the hood and I really had to get some things done I capitulated. Wiped the whole system and installed W10. Total bliss: good graphics, consistency and a stable system. I won't go back soon.
Never had that experience with Arch, maybe you forgot to keep the system updated for a long time and then tried an upgrade? That is more or less sure to break things.
I tend to keep my Arch boxes running continually from kernel or certain security update to the next, sometimes months between reboots. My impression is that they are as stable as ocean trudging warships. And compared to Windows machines they are quiet, no fans racing due to telemetry whatever or indexing whatever or whatever as soon as I let go of the keyboard for some idle thinking. They do what they are told and never ever interfere with my work unless permitted to. No nonsense notifications, no Microsoft adverts, no nagscreen madness as soon as there's some update available.
And how do you cope with the UI? It is only partially possible to control from the keyboard so do you switch mouse hand periodically to keep burden on your arms and shoulders even? Is it even possible to get a good, customisable window manager under Windows without running one on a virtual guest OS?
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I have used desktop Linux since 1997, Red Hat, Mandrake, Gentoo and Arch several times on a dual boot desktop on and off and on several laptops. And I lately and for a long time have been where you are right now: really wanted to make Linux work on my (travel) Thinkpad X250. But with Linux it's a constant effort just to keep things running. When last year after a full update of the system (Arch Linux) all kinds of nuts and bolts started to fall off from under the hood and I really had to get some things done I capitulated. Wiped the whole system and installed W10. Total bliss: good graphics, consistency and a stable system. I won't go back soon.
Arch is known for its instability, if you don't want to care about your OS why not just pick Ubuntu?
Never had that experience with Arch, maybe you forgot to keep the system updated for a long time and then tried an upgrade? That is more or less sure to break things.
I tend to keep my Arch boxes running continually from kernel or certain security update to the next, sometimes months between reboots. My impression is that they are as stable as ocean trudging warships. And compared to Windows machines they are quiet, no fans racing due to telemetry whatever or indexing whatever or whatever as soon as I let go of the keyboard for some idle thinking. They do what they are told and never ever interfere with my work unless permitted to. No nonsense notifications, no Microsoft adverts, no nagscreen madness as soon as there's some update available.
And how do you cope with the UI? It is only partially possible to control from the keyboard so do you switch mouse hand periodically to keep burden on your arms and shoulders even? Is it even possible to get a good, customisable window manager under Windows without running one on a virtual guest OS?