Screen tearing is no longer an issue, at least on wayland. As for simple… it’s different.

Painting your room is to windows like building a house is to linux.

Windows makes it simple to paint your room while linux enables you to build whatever house you want. Nothing is ever free and as such - sometimes certain tradeoffs have to be made that get in a way of what you might consider “simple”.

Mini Metro was the first thing that came to mind. Fun little time waster.

IPv6. My stupid ISP actually shipped their router with all inbound ipv6 blocked with no way to unblock it, so I set up opnsense. Works like a charm!