But after bonking two installs, I finally gave up and decided to stick with Windows.

It reminds me of the experience I had using Windows 10 Mobile on a Lumia. It's a nice experience that actually rivals that of the brands with better recognition. But the lack of apps and quality support just spells out that it will forever be on the edge of people's buying patterns.

You'd think that most power-users have the expertise and skill level to maintain an install that there would be a rival to some of the development tools that are widely used on Windows and Mac PC's, like the Adobe Suite and Visual Studio and other IDE's. But GIMP and Eclipse I don't think have caught up as far as robustness of features and support from those companies.