Ty. Didn’t want to add “I’m using Debian, btw.”. Debian ticks all my boxes for ease of install, usage, updates, software availabiliy and - most important - stability.

Still quietly asking myself why tf that is important. I need an OS to do a task, and I need it to be as easily configurable and as unobtrusive as possible. If I was into nursing an OS I’d have stayed with Windows.

This is porn! Now I need a dot matrix printer for posters.

Was thinking same, packs from unsold leasing returns. But probably not so.

because it works, even in a crowdstrike

edit: typo

Usually those numbers fall back into the provider’s pool after a time of not regular usage and get sold again, at least here in Europe.

Thank you for that information. It’s a company machine, but if I ever get annoyed enough I’ll try it out. I just f*s my brain that they’re bold enough to change the UI for worse.

tl, did not read all. sry, tired.

“The reality is that while you’ve gotten very good at navigating the operating system that you’ve been using for the past twenty years, very little of that knowledge is useful in GNU/Linux.”

One could add “Or on the next version/release of Windows”, cos they’re breaking that “knowledge” with each new (forced) change on the UI. Yes, I want to right-click on a file and choose “rename” in a context menu, not choose one of a ton of icons, I want excel to open a new instance with a new file, and so on. It kills productivity for me to be forced on these changes.

Ragequitting or very ballsy move.

Well for me it does not work (T470s, two docks, different monitors). Well, it does sometimes work after the second reboot.