i've been trying to move to linux because of how bloated windows is, half of my 514 GBs were thrown in a hellfire because of it, I saw that you talked about linux (and expressed your hatred for it), it reminded me of needing to switch to linux at that time i was also doing a bunch of stuff on software (3d modelling, drawing, ableton and scripting in unity), i had so many files that it was a complete mess and it all lagged. I also know that i don't play many games that I don't need to stay in windows so i tried again to install (without a usb didn't had one at the time) I managed to do it with universal usb installer and I am free now.
I like it alot because of how customizable and good it is (especially for performance), i am learning to do TWM on i3 to improve performance on my programs.