Windows is pretty comfy, but Linux is nice for my streamlined development experience, I do highly low level down to the metal stuff so that's mainly why I use it. I see how some people could use it for daily use, anyway for your list:
- Shortcuts: XFCE, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, KDE and GNOME all have shortcuts that you can bind, and if you don't have a DE you can also set up keybinds for your WM universally, which is pretty nice.
- Hobbies: Drawing, Krita or sai with Wine. Music editing: LMMS, even when I was on windows I used LMMS.
- Cad: FreeCAD, I've always used it.
- Games: Lutris, I don't really play video games, so I wouldn't know if it's good, I hear it can run most popular steam games though.
- Scripts for retards: bash scripts, programming your own program for the task, python, sxhkd, xbindkeys, etc. Literally there are so many keybinding programs I would die before listing them all out.
>Muh botnet
There's no avoiding it, I don't even bother.
>muh wine
Wine is pretty terrible but there's some nice forks that make it do SOME things, I usually just run a VM with passthrough for windows only stuff though. (which is quite rare but it's nice to have the option as a backup)
What distro would I reccomend to someone:
Debian, hands down, I run Arch and I hear a LOT of people are recommending it but it's a fucking pile of shit, and the fanbase is shit too, the only good thing about it is the AUR, and the arch wiki, that's literally it. I know that there's all kinds of leftist propaganda, and I don't really care for politics but it's a really good distro, so it doesn't really bother me too much. There's plenty of documentation for it and most apps and programs support Debiian right out of the box.
Anyway thanks for reading my giant fucking wall of text if you did user, hope I could give you insight on why we Linux users, do what we do.