some of your objections are reasonable, I would state however that Your Phone is quiet a valuable piece of software allowing you to share screen and transfer files from your phone to your PC wirelessly. I wish I had something this good on Linux. It probably exists, I just haven't found it because a lot of software on Linux have absurd names.

Your Phone is the Microsoft equal to KDE Connect I believe. When I used Windows more I found it far superior to KDE Connect. But even at that I didn't use it much.

The page recommended in the OP confuses “Free” and “Gratuitous”.

These terms are hard to explain when your own language mixes the concepts freely according to context. In Germany we must explain the difference between liberty and freedom, which is easy, but not evident by looking at mere words. The French are better off, but choose deliberately to not understand as pushing attitudes into drawers is against their way of being.

Now I read point 1 (One) in a list of arguments in the English language (blessed in comparison to the other two) and the author confuses money with action. I do not even read this stuff. Ω

IDK about reasons why something is better than the other but here are MY reasons to abandon Windows for good as of July 14th 2022 (after having a dual boot with it for 7 years):

Windows 7: after installing any framework version higher than 4.0, it went into an infinite restart loop. If not installing a framework it worked fine but as you can imagine, you can't play games without that framework or without drivers (they too install a framework). The weird part is that exactly the same Windows 7 edition used to work perfectly fine with the same .Net Framework version 3 years ago and with the same drivers from 3 years ago. That makes me think Windows 7 has "pre-programmed aging" in order to force you to use the latest crap in Microshit's inventory.
Windows 10: you gotta constantly tinker the damn registry to do even simple settings that used to be easily accessible in Windows 7. On top of that there's absolutely no way to disable the antivirus, therefore - no cracked games. After a long tinker in Group Policies and registry, you think you have disabled the antivirus but in fact you havent. An antimalware process keeps running itself and there's absolutely no way to disable that process. Adding insult to injury, you have no rights to change anything about your own admin account, not to mention the rights to choose a default program for the file types you want. The most popular file types had no "browse" button in properties to change the program used for opening them.
Windows 11: you could easily disable the real time protection but the antimalware process is still there when you boot the system. The registry tinkering continues for even simple things like assigning shortcut keys to change the keyboard layout.
Windows 10 & 11: both refused to be installed the traditional way because the disk was MBR. When I changed it to GPT, both refused to install the traditional way for the same reason - because the disk was GPT! There's no pleasuring the damn Crapindows, no matter what you do! I had to use the Shift+F10 for Crap 10 to install it but that method no longer works for Crap 11.
When I bought a 4TB HDD and formatted it for first use, I made it MBR NTFS because back then I still hadn't reasearched what GPT was, so I did what I knew better. Linux properly detected that hard drive as a single 4TB hard disk. Crap 10 & 11 detected it as a hard disk consistent of two inacessible partitions, 2 TB each.
So after Crap 10 & 11 "told" me that they can't install on a GPT disk (after crying about MBR for months), I had a surge of Klingon rage because of the constant Microshit's idiotism and kicked almost everything related to Windows in its ass, including the ISOs I had and made all drives to be ext4.

My *several* N450cpu 2GBram tiny OLD laptops can barely run EoL Win7, but run MX&Mint21 *infinitely BETTER* than that Win7 they came with. Speed is fine, unless I try to load JSbloated Reddit (NOW gets StopHUNGscript/Continue? popup; Reddit worked fine until they REdesigned it a several months ago)

Linux is produced by volunteers, so (of course) perfectdrivers may be lacking (but using older hwd often avoids this)

There's still 'rough edges' like this But doubling the size of the 16GB I initally gave MX19 a couple years ago
turned out to be trivially easy&FAST! (I wish I had tried gparted before I spent the last year struggling to keep my Downloads/*.iso under 4GB! Now I have 20GB for .iso 's)