Linux does not care if the user is still in the vim age or has already progressed to good editors.

It depends on the user. If you'll install GNU/Linux distribution as a nooby, choose some easy distribution - most probably it will install a lot of bloatware, and possibly could be unstable... But if you'll go into details and learn the basic you could install some better distro, which you will install manually, and you will install all you need, no bloat. If you will, here are the perks:

• Stability (it also depends on your hardware.. NVIDIA for example is pretty bad, but Intel or AMD is great. Must be better stability than on Windows, if you'll not fk up)
• Performance (since you installed everything by yourself, and you will have no bloat, telemetry and etc. you will run the OS with great performance)
• Security (vulns on big distros are getting fixed fastly, and there are less vulns than on Windows, also less viruses you could get on a desktop)
• Customizability (you could change anything you want, desktop environment, sometimes init system, pretty much anything but it depends on a distro and your skills)

Me, as a.. I would say half a professional GNU/Linux user, would recommend Void Linux for half-experienced or experienced user, because I like the runit init system and the stability, even though it's rolling model.

But for a newbie... I don't know. All of them I tried - they had problems. So it's better to either endure, either start from a not-so-hard distro like Void Linux.

EDIT: oh yeah.. I read a lot of comments here and I would also add that the system is free, open-source (with Linux-libre), and it's also not so bad at gaming since Steam made Proton, a fork of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). I also game sometimes and I use Lutris.. Don't know if there any other cooler alternative heh.

I honestly don’t know. Every OS has its goods & bads. But generally I think it just comes down to whatever’s available. Personally, I use:

• Windows on my work laptop (because that’s what they gave me),
• MacOS on my personal laptop (because I like it),
• Ubuntu on my home automation / media server (because it was free).

It’s supposedly easier to breath with your nose angled that high up in the air.

Gaming. I know Steam has done a lot for Linux gaming but most game developers focus on Windows.

Not all games run on Linux and some require extra steps. Some wont run on Linux, period. Driver supports and new features are always windows first.

Some people use other store fronts, other than Steam. It is a pain to run them on Linux. there are several launchers on Linux but they don't work for all games and support is not consistent.

For gaming, it is still windows, not Linux or Mac OS.