Agreed. I've been slowly moving the machines onto nixOS, and I'm reformatting an older Mac for a neighbor on nixOS as well. On the livecd it runs impressively fast, but on OSX it's so slow as to be unusable. Windows is now so actively hostile that it's time to make the jump.
Time to switch to a Linux distro that works. There's plenty good ones out there, your people must be picking the shit ones... Or compiling their own and badly.