Very good points.

This definitely can’t hurt and will probably help narrow it down, but it’s unlikely that OPs problem is hardware-related given that it doesn’t happen on Windows.

There’s a happy medium imo. Linux is enjoying a bit of a golden age at the moment because so many people are doing brilliant work making it usable and nice. But if the userbase becomes too large, tech companies will see their bottom lines affected, and it’ll be enshittified like everything else. And it’ll become a more attractive target for malware, of course.

And thank god it isn’t