Biggus Dickus

Yeah, blue light filters are a meme. I used them on all my devices for 9 months. I haven’t noticed any difference. In fact, I had a harder time looking at the screen while they were active. Then I played around with the settings and I noticed that dimming the screen according to the room lighting is the only thing that helps, and it’s much better if you don’t use color filters. Phones and some laptops can already do this automatically. I tried a monochromatic mode. It’s actually a lot more straining to look at something without colors because my brain needs to work more to figure out what’s what. Similar can be said by filtering any color. It’s not natural for us to blind ourselves on purpose. If you have trouble falling asleep "because of computer screens" then your brain is overstimulated and you’re too addicted to staring at your entertainment devices. Color filtering won’t help. Stop being an addict, take a walk or ride a bike, do some sport, meet your friends, go fishing and daydream, have sex, just do something that doesn’t involve grabbing your phone or PC every 10 seconds and everything will be fine.

It boils down to convenience, ease of use, freedom of choice and ownership/control over my OS. It's free of charge and doesn't have DRM. You own your OS instead of renting a license to use someone else's. When using Linux you have full admin privileges on your device and can even swap system level stuff with ease instead of fighting against your OS like you would with Windows. There's nobody who can suddenly revoke your right to use Linux. It comes with all drivers an average user would need out of the box. The only exception is nVidia (if you're not on PopOS/Ubuntu 19.10+), and new hardware which needs the latest kernel. It comes with all software you'd need by default as well. Most distros will give you Firefox, LibreOffice, media players, GIMP, text editors, etc. All of these are much better than Windows default software. I mean, I can't think of anyone who doesn't replace at least half the windows defaults, whereas on Linux the good stuff [VLC, text editors, archive support (no need for 7z/winrar)] is already included. I mean, Manjaro even comes with Steam. Choice of distros. Specific distros come with all or most software you'll want. If you need a distro for servers, routers, phones, data recovery, weak computers, penetration testing, media production, security/privacy-orientation, science, etc. there's a good chance you'll find a distro that has all the default software and configuration you'd need. Anywhere from TinyCoreLinux to SUSE, your choices are limitless. It doesn't have a ton of arcane background services which will cause CPU&HDD usage spikes for no apparent reason, or annoyances like forced automatic updates and pop-ups asking you to use stuff you don't want. Also, no personal data collection. Software centres/repositories are much more convenient than having to download software through a browser. And you don't need an account to use the software centre like you do with windows 10, Android and iOS. Also, system updates are at least twice as fast on Linux. Security is slightly better, in my opinion. Instead of UAC you have password prompts. Instead of all files being executable you need to manually allow execution of files you download from internet or fetch from an external drive. There's a good isolation between root and user. The Linux Terminal is a MUCH better tool than windows cmd and even power shell from my experience. Linux is much more stable overall. It's customizable as hell due to it giving you the freedom to do what you want (thanks, GNUnix philosophy) and being open source. So it's really good for specialized use like servers, and for developers. There's a reason WSL and Azure exist. Platform support. You can install Linux on pretty much anything. From different CPU architectures to devices like desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, single-board computers, smart watches, consoles (PS2/Switch). You can run it with a Live USB, you can install a GNU/Linux distro under Android (Termux+anLinux) or Windows (WSL).