It depends on the user. If you’ll install GNU/Linux distribution as a nooby, choose some easy distribution - most probably it will install a lot of bloatware, and possibly could be unstable… But if you’ll go into details and learn the basic you could install some better distro, which you will install manually, and you will install all you need, no bloat. If you will, here are the perks:

• Stability (it also depends on your hardware… NVIDIA for example is pretty bad, but Intel or AMD is great. Must be better stability than on Windows, if you’ll not fk up)
• Performance (since you installed everything by yourself, and you will have no bloat, telemetry and etc. you will run the OS with great performance)
• Security (vulns on big distros are getting fixed fastly, and there are less vulns than on Windows, also less viruses you could get on a desktop)
• Customizability (you could change anything you want, desktop environment, sometimes init system, pretty much anything but it depends on a distro and your skills)

Me, as a… I would say half a professional GNU/Linux user, would recommend Void Linux for half-experienced or experienced user, because I like the runit init system and the stability, even though it’s rolling model.

But for a newbie… I don’t know. All of them I tried - they had problems. So it’s better to either endure, either start from a not-so-hard distro like Void Linux.