Every OS will give you problems. The particular set of problems just differ.

In theory Linux can provide better performance. It’s fundamentally better at process management and networking.

London stock exchange switched to Linux servers many years ago, because milliseconds equalled lotsa money.

But in practice it’s more complicated. Better fundamentals don’t always matter if your preferred game has optimizations in Windows drivers and was specifically written and tested and optimized for Windows, but not for Linux. Those optimizations will often beat any low level advantages.

Linux can be more performant and you have more options to tweak (selection of distro and DE, throwing components out that you don’t need, configure your own kernel if you want to).

But out of the box it often won’t be. Or rather it will be better in some cases and worse in others.

Performance by itself is usually not something that will sustain you on Linux.

To me the main reason is that I don’t like sharing ownership of my computer with a company. And that’s what you get with MS and Apple. They partially own your system and will make decisions for you and grab data from you.

Glad somebody else mentioned “The Anubis Gates” by Tim Powers already. The twists and turns of the story and how well the time travel is done is excellent.

Too bad nobody is doing a good series adaptation of this book (movie wouldn’t work - not enough time ;-) ).

Doesn’t help that the protagonist isn’t always the most likeable guy.

Time to read it again. :-)