I’ve been thinking about installing Linux on my computer since Windows 10 is rather slow, even on a brand new laptop with good specs. Those of you that use Linux as their primary OS (or have used Linux), is it worth it? Do the speed and customization benefits outweigh the low support for software and games? Is it easier to develop software on it? How about casual activities: browsing the web, checking email, watching movies/tv shows, etc? I come from a mostly Windows background, how different will doing all that on Linux be?
I’m looking at elementary OS as it’s aesthetically pleasing and faster than Windows on my machine (when I tried it out from a USB stick). I also tried Ubuntu, however performance was worse compared to elementary and overall I disliked it. What other distros should I look into?