I hate windows 11, because it’s bad. Installing drivers is annoying, removing the ads and de-bloating a PAID operating system is just ridiculous. It’s also unstable, random crashes galore, uses a ton of system resources and sleep doesn’t work. As you mentioned yourself it’s also a privacy nightmare. But that’s not all of my reasons for hating windows…

• Horrible CLI experience, can’t get any work done without needing to go through 15 different menus to find some arcane setting to adjust simple things like global variables. Powershell also has the habit of randomly forgetting that certain commands exist, I am aware it’s probably me doing something wrong there, but I do not care enough to figure it out, to me it just doesn’t work.

• Horrendous laptop experience. 1:1 touch pad gestures? Smooth animations? A workflow that makes sense? Not on windows! And yk, sleep doesn’t work.

• WORSE gaming performance on AMD graphics cards. Yep, this has been the case ever since I switched to AMD a few years ago and despite all their driver updates, I still get a much better performance in games on linux through wine. This is just ignoring the fact that radeon software on windows is a piece of fcking garbage that likes randomly crashing and then uninstalling itself.

• Virtualization is bad. No KVM = bad for me… It’s just slower on windows and you can’t do fun stuff like GPU passtrough.

• I can’t even fcking install windows 11 without doing ridicuous hacks to bypass the secure boot/TPM/other garbage.

• No app store/normal package manager. Winget sucks… it just does. Yes, it’s better than nothing, no, it’s not good… Same goes for chocolatey. It’s nice, but it’s just not that good.

Fundamentally, there are many reasons… A lot of which I’ve listed, to dislike windows. And I’m not a Linux elitist, my main work machine is a Mac, I just use what works best and windows just… doesn’t. It’s been enshittified beyond belief and even ignoring the enshittification, there are things that fundamentally prevent me from liking/using windows for anything more than a piracy machine… As that’s the one thing that’s easier on windows.

Bionic reading extension

This article cites sources from 2015…

Yeah, that hasn’t been true for a loooong time

People calling this a horrible UI have clearly never used SAP…

Doesn’t it stand for “supposed to be structured”?

You should try kde connect

laughs in tailwind

CrDroid… Use it mostly because it’s stock android with a few extra options…

They are kinda choppy, when compared to native Wayland apps and screensharing from an app, running in xwayland doesn’t really work…

Lots, LOTS, TL;DR - flatpaks are sandboxed and work on every* distro out there, while apt packages are not and only work on debian and it’s derivatives. I’d say on mint or debian, prefer using flatpaks over apt packages as you’re usually gonna get newer versions of software.

you can get em for pretty cheap used

I am gonna get a shit ton of hate for this… MacBook air. Yes, I am on a Linux sublemmy, saying that I like macs but the hardware is just too good to justify spending money on a x86 laptop.

Though, those new snapdragon X Elite laptops do look pretty spicy… Too bad they weren’t yet announced when I bought my Mac.

Finally, recompiling the kernel to change scheduler will be a thing of the past…

Buy Helldivers 2

I’ve commented this before and I’ll do it again. DO NOT try to install ROCm/HIP, it’s a nightmare. AMD provides preconfigured docker containers with it already setup. Download one of them and do whatever you need to do on that.

You are literally just describing fedora. So yeah, give that a try.

Some people are just insane… That’s why they exist.

No, they cannot. If a process is running on your system, you can see it in htop.

Warp terminal. I like it

To use AMDs machine learning thing (ROCm/HIP) you 1st need to set it up on your system, as it’s not a part of the FOSS driver. Tl:Dr don’t bother. AMD provides docker containers with ROCm/HIP already setup. Download one of those and install whatever you need on that. Trust me, you’re gonna save yourself a lot of nightmares.

E: See: This for more information