@jadebot Fundamentally what makes Linux worth the hassle of installing it, is that actually using it is unbelievably user-friendly. Unlike Windows which goes out of its way to pretend to be a magical black box (and thus, when things inevitably go wrong because Windows is a buggy mess, it makes it really fucking painful to diagnose and fix), a Linux system bares its soul to you. It's made of text files. A fair bit of customization boils down to literally just editing relevant text files, or using graphical utilities that edit the text files for you. (Actually, one of the core design principles is that even parts of the system that aren't actually files on disc, like network sockets, can be read from and written to as if they were files.)

All the practical advantages of Linux (easy to customize, command-line scripting is super easy and also something you never have to touch unless you want to, support is far more robust) basically flow directly from the fact that the system is extremely convenient for the end user to modify as they want.