I use Kubuntu LTS for 10 years with xorg and I have minimal issues so far and it is enjoyable than Windows

guake and conemu

excel for vba support

just change to ext4 bro. it is de-facto standard of Linux and it is very stable

it is not as easy as it sounds because public services and figures send their news/notifications through X

that is sad. I like Wordpad. But, kate and Notepadnext is good alternatives

yeah, that is why distrobox is lot of more flexible than nixos and hell even SteamOS support distrobox natively as well.

WSL1 does not required hypervisor and it is quite stable in my end

lots of softwares are missing in nix. distrobox with AUR is the best and safest option

distrobox = WSL in Linux world

pcloud

I was utorrent user and now utorrent feels bloated and I think I need to start move on. So, qbittorrent is the answer