I get some of your frustrations and I have had some over the years but I have been using Linux since 2000. There were a lot of improvements over the years. The endless dependency issues were primarily solved with these package managers. I used openSUSE Leap 42.1 and YaST is awesome!

There are sometimes quirky issues here and there with programs not working but for the most part I am able to figure them out and work around them. I don't even have Windows installed and I haven't for a long time. Now that being said I don't game currently.

Windows has its uses for sure but I love Linux.