I've been Microsoft-free for a year now, and my Linux distribution is running just as smoothly as it did on day one.
Privately, I'm sticking with Zorin OS. 
Installed in dual boot on August 9, 2024, and deleted Windows 11 on September 14, 2024, switching to Zorin Pro.
I'm glad that you have been having a wonderful time with Linux, thats wonderful to here. Congrats on your first year!
Quick question though. I noticed that your computer is pushing a whopping frequency of 4.2GHZ, yet you are only using 3% CPU utilization. This suggests you are overclocking. Hope you have a good cooler on that machine.
Happy New Year. 
Congrats!
No, I don't intentionally overclock, and I don't have a cooler.
The PC was an Asus PN51 Mini PC (AMD® Ryzen 7 5700u with Radeon Graphics + 32.0 GiB RAM).
I converted the PC into a fanless Akasa Turing A50 MKII case.
@StarTreker
I thought about your post, but the CPU is doing everything right, fluctuating between 1.8 and 4.3 GHz depending on the load.
Hello @Dexxa hope you are doing well today. Yep, it looks like your CPU base clock is 1.8GHZ. Instead of letting my system auto turbo to insane speeds when I'm not gaming, I use CPU Power Frequency, to lock my CPU, at the speed I want it too, which helps to control heat.
(Thanks to Dexxa screenshot traced the icon )
Mission Center is good — a new discovery! (Picked up Neofetch yesterday).
It's more readable, but the only thing missing, like Task Manager, is the BIOS start-up time.
But Zorin loads faster than Windows (the firmware is about the closest to the BIOS start time).
zoran@bosgame:~$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 6.034s (firmware) + 3.524s (loader) + 6.633s (kernel) + 7.572s (userspace) = 23.763s
Graphical.target is reached after 7.558 seconds in userspace.
VPN loads with the desktop and is ready to use, but Windows takes about a minute.
Hello @Startreker ,
thank you for the tip CPU frequency settings, I'll give it a try.
