its crazy that windows has enshittified to the point that you’re better off without it despite 30+ years of software exclusivity
I am the sort of person that, if you told me two years ago what Linux is and that in a couple short years I’d be really into it, I would not have believed you, because this stuff is 100% Not My Thing.
But, I was bored one weekend, and I had recently read about this weird Linux thing that used to exist in the 90s in a period computer science article. Figured I’d look up if it was still around and kill some time reading up on its history and timeline.
A day later I was digging through thousands of opinions on the best distros, and digging through my desk drawer for a USB stick that I didn’t mind wiping. Just wanted to fuck about on a spare partition, figured someone who knows the basics of computers and serves as her extended family’s free tech support could do with picking up some Linux skills to complement her Windows skills and general subject knowledge.
After a few weeks, I had to boot into Windows again.
The best way to find out how much you hate something, is to get some time away from it, with something that’s less horrible.
I’d been just quietly tolerating Windows ever since XP died, and took with it my enthusiasm for ripping the system apart and customizing everything to look and work how I want it to - what’s the point learning how this new system works, when I’ll have to learn a newer one in a few years, over and over and over.