Looks like Win7 came out in 2008. So did KDE4 https://timeline.kde.org/. I’ve pretty much always used KDE so it’s a good measuring stick for me.

My completely subjective opinion is they were pretty equivalent. Win7 wasn’t bad. But neither was KDE4.

I’ve never had any trouble running adobe software on Linux.

I’ve also never tried, but still the statement is technically correct.