Early Kotlin and early Swift were good.

In Kotlin, you can have the type become implicit with the former syntax: let text = number.toString() (text is a String here)

I have the exact opposite experience: I recently installed Fedora (stock, so Gnome) and had 0 issues. It was easier to install than Windows. The sidenote is that I have a Framework laptop, so my hardware is fully supported. And I was a Linux user before, so nothing looks alien to me. I didn’t need the terminal to get everything working, including wireless printing.