Lack of intelligence isn't the issue. Take the dumbest person you know and imagine they're trapped in a room with no visible escape path. They panic and start destroying whatever's in the room. They damage themselves in a fit trying to escape. Now take that same scenario but put in small creature comforts and distractions. Now your dumb friend isn't panicking or fighting to get out. He's still trapped and his intelligence neither helped or harmed his situation. This is what's happened over the last 100 years, and it's accelerated to decline.
I'm going to give you the secret to switching. Go all AMD for your build, and leave everything you know about Windows software and how it works at the door. Learn to use Linux. Expecting it and Linux software to work like Windows is the pitfall.
Linux has great DAWs, bridges for vsts, alternatives for Adobe software and tons of games. The issue is your unwillingness to try something new, which is fine, but that's not a knock to Linux.
You mean Nvidia hardware. Nvidia purposefully sucks overall on Linux. Don't reply with "mine works great" because you're lying or haven't had an issue yet. Fuck Nvidia.
A lot of the hate GIMP gets is people coming from Photoshop expecting it to work like Photoshop. In fact that's true for a lot of Adobe-like open source projects. That's why "industry standards" are dangerous and really only exist to keep one company rich.
That's not how it works here. We the people don't really choose who runs, we just have the privilege of backing a preselected candidate that will continue to do the bidding of lobbyists or have the opposition who is also being supported by lobbyists but also Russia and they also eat babies. It's a joke and has been for forever and people are just now catching on now that it's too late.
If you're an American, whether you like it or not, you participate in genocide. Every aspect of living in this country causes harm to someone else. Our tax dollars kill, mutilate and destroy yet we all are compelled to pay them.
Lack of intelligence isn't the issue. Take the dumbest person you know and imagine they're trapped in a room with no visible escape path. They panic and start destroying whatever's in the room. They damage themselves in a fit trying to escape. Now take that same scenario but put in small creature comforts and distractions. Now your dumb friend isn't panicking or fighting to get out. He's still trapped and his intelligence neither helped or harmed his situation. This is what's happened over the last 100 years, and it's accelerated to decline.