I think it’s time someone created a /c/fuckwindows or something because this community basically shits Windows every day. (Not that I don’t appreciate it, but I think that should be a better place for it).

I like Flatpak for things that have proprietary junk like VSCode because of the contention and selective permissions.

Besides that, it has a Flatpak package.

Use Mint. Manjaro is a joke, and Mint fixes the Ubuntu’s wrongdoings. The average UI experience is also like Windows. LibreOffice has a config that makes it almost like MicrosoftOffice called “tabbed”. I personally thinks that to set up a Virtual Box in Linux is easier than in Windows. For non-steam games you can use Lutris or Heroic for Epic, nowadays you only have unfixable problems with online multiplayer anti-cheat, Valorant, for example.