My WSL windows machine says otherwise 
It’s certainly not for server purposes…
Honestly, do not be afraid of dual booting. If you need Windows for that one game or software that you use 5% of the time, why keep yourself “trapped”?
Problems:
Linux software library. Can you handle the library of software for Linux, does it have everything you need it for? If not, you need to consider using a virtual machine, WINE (if the software has been tested to work properly on WINE), or dual booting.
Gaming. With dxvk, proton, lutris, you can run a lot of Windows games that have been tested quite well. Unfortunately, there is always this one game or two that doesn’t run properly due to strange bugs in WINE OR some pesky malware-like Anti-cheats that maliciously attempt to block games ran on WINE or some kernel anti cheat you can’t run these games on Linux. Either dual booting, or a very fancy GPU pasthrough solution (if you have two gpus and like to tinker) seem to be the solution.
Drivers: Drivers of your PC or peripherals have to work decently to have an ok experience, so you need to check out on this.
OS-tools: you won’t have the exact same powershell as on Windows, you won’t have Group policy, you won’t have the exact same native RDP, etc. If you rely on these kind of tools, you may need to think.
Random bugs: Random bugs suck, period. And they can sometimes be a massive pain.
Linux workflow, too complicated for you?
This one is controversial, but it is always going to be an issue. It is not about blaming the user, or going to war against devs. The User Experience (UX) of every software on Earth has been criticized. The UX of iPhones have been criticized, there are some people who can’t stand its UX. The UX of Android smartphones has been criticized. The UX of Macbooks has been criticized. The UX of every Windows version has been criticized.
If you find that you don’t click with the workflow of Linux, that you dislike most Desktop Environments, or you don’t like some aspect of Linux (you don’t like bash, you don’t like the package system of how software is installed, you don’t like the file structure, etc.), it doesn’t mean that there is necessarily something wrong with you, take it at your own pace, take it easy.
You can practice in virtual machines, if you need to. You can google the majority of your answers, or find some pdf or documentation. There are some beginner linux forums to help out. And if you have a little bit of patience, remember that you are not forced to stay with stock settings, if there is something that you don’t like, you can change it.
Only you can know what your needs are, but honestly if Linux fits your needs, that you are a little bit patient or willing to learn if it needs to, I would recommend to at least check it out, you have nothing to lose, really.
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I agree with you and I did exactly that on my previous laptop. But after I bought a new laptop, my favorite distribution can’t find the WiFi adapter, video card and some other stuff. Most likely, this is because the distribution doesn’t use the latest kernel. I will definitely try again in the future when the developer of this distribution updates the kernel version.
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