It’s not a network file system. It’s a regular file system for hard drives, SSDs and such, which is used by default on Windows since Windows NT (that’s where the NT comes from - it doesn’t stand for network but “new technology”).

The implementation in Windows is closed source meaning the file system had to be reverse engineered to even work at all under Linux. Support nowadays is okay-ish, but as soon as you don’t properly shutdown your computer or use the file system under Windows, you will run into weird problems.

Also it just straight up doesn’t work for most games running under wine.

Consistent font, text readable, pixel perfect consistency on close / maximize / minimize buttons. Definitely not (completely) AI-generated.

Just not true anymore. Must have been years ago that you used Nvidia on Linux. As someone who has been using Nvidia GPUs under Linux (Manjaro KDE mostly), recently also under Wayland (since plasma 6), I can attest that the experience is very good, no “tons of small issues”.

Still though, since OP wants no proprietary drivers, he has to go for AMD, since nouveau is dog shit.