It’s also kind of nasty with software that was designed for a mouse, which is pretty much everything.

I get 90% of the benefits of a tiling WM with KDE/GNOME shortcuts and tmux, and avoid pretty much all of the downsides. It’s not quite as nice for dev vs my old XMonad setup, but it’s way nicer for random GUI software (looking at you, GIMP and Steam).

My kids honestly haven’t really used Windows or macOS, they’ve mostly used my Linux computers (both currently run Plasma 6) and ChromeOS at school. Even my 4yo can launch and run Minecraft on my computer, and there’s no way they’d be able to grok a keyboard without knowing the alphabet first. The mouse is fantastic for lowering the barrier to using a computer, it’s just not as effective as a keyboard.