I'm kind of in the same boat though. Compatibility still breaks lots of things people don't think about.
music production (that's me)
video editing & pp
architecture software & planning software
legally compliant software for taxes, etc.
various GIS software
very specific closed source hardware
There's quite a few people I can confidently recommend Linux to, but there's also a bunch I can't.
I tried setting up my DAW setup with external plugins and even with huge limitations I couldn't get it to work. I tried 8 times, with 5 different configurations. This is not feasible. I had to switch back, and I hate that I had to do it, but I'm working with artists and costumers, and things need to work fast and stable.
Man if they figure out stable alternatives to Premiere Pro and Ableton I'm on board, but for now all of that is not easy to do and the setup can be extremely janky.
Because the people make the platform, and not the functions, and for lots of people you need a lower entry barrier, and the entry barrier for both of those is a good bit higher than fluxer.
Don't get me wrong, if matrix was a bit more convenient (easier to understand and to use like you would discord, and less bugs of which there are still a wide range of), I'd 100% advocate for it. But I can only tell my friends to use something if it's convenient enough that they will genuinely avoid a degraded experience.
Tying this to the minimum wage has some unique consequences and I can see why you chose that.
I have to point out though that in your wording, disseminating information while you are working will be very hard. For example, going to conferences might get you convicted (working under a contract from a company and then disseminating information in that conference) and I imagine there's quite a few other things that could also fall under this, though I see you already did some very exact limits.
I feel like these lines could be drawn a bitore elegant but it's not like I'm a politician who has great understanding of laws and language in order to draft something like this.
What is an ad? Is it an ad spot in the middle of a TV show? A big billboard? A banner on a website? Someone talking about a brand? Just writing or saying a brand name? Subtle algorithmic nudging?
You gotta put a line in the sand, and depending on where you put it, it'll be harder to influence anyone or harder to address brands or products. There's always a trade off.
And then additionally we gotta address any behavioural adaptions of big companies. Imagine if companies started striking illegal deals with social media companies for favourable algorithms? How do you control that? And on the other hand, imagine you were talking about a product and suddenly people accuse you of illegal advertising? How do you make sure people don't skirt the line and also no one is wrongly convicted?
I'm not saying this is a dumb idea, I actually agree cracking down on forceful or manipulative advertising is an interesting idea, I just think that these broad stroke ideas an insane amount of continuous planning, validation and readdressing.
To further discourage you from dual booting: there's a long tradition by this point about your windows OS swallowing your Linux OS or taking over your bootloader and not giving it back. This has only gotten worse with time and there's basically no surefire solution.
Another approach is always a VM but for graphically intense applications or things like music production, you'll spend lots of time making passthrough of your audio or devices work. That said, it is a great solution for these oddball apps that you just can't get to work in Linux.
I'm kind of in the same boat though. Compatibility still breaks lots of things people don't think about.
There's quite a few people I can confidently recommend Linux to, but there's also a bunch I can't.
I tried setting up my DAW setup with external plugins and even with huge limitations I couldn't get it to work. I tried 8 times, with 5 different configurations. This is not feasible. I had to switch back, and I hate that I had to do it, but I'm working with artists and costumers, and things need to work fast and stable.