| >For me, an OS is not a religious affiliation but a tool
I hard agree on this. I use my W11 22H2 as a daily driver because of that: it just works (TM). Also, I don't see any kind of news or the likes on Windows, and it feels really close to Windows 7. Here are the things I've done so far: - Bought a Windows 10 Education license from a shady website, and it's been working fine for the past 4? years. The upgrade to Windows 11 Education went smoothly as well. - Local account only. No Sign in to Windows crap. - (Most important imo) Installed OOSU Shutup10++ (it's for Windows 11) and turned almost everything off there. - Bought a Start11 license for 5 USD and installed it, and switched to the Windows 7 start menu using it. No ads anywhere in Windows, feels like Windows 7, talks much less to whatever 3rd party people MS have contracts with to get my data. FWIW, I did try daily-driving Linux Mint Cinnamon, which is the best Linux for me imho. However, there is a show-stopping bug as follows: I have 3 monitors, with the main one being a 4K over DP. My monitors are set to turn off after 5 minutes, and in Windows, they turn back on just fine when I move the mouse (minor annoyance: display scaling is not reflected across all application windows till I minimize and open the window again but no big deal).
For Linux, the DP monitor won't get detected; it behaves as if my other 2 monitors are the only ones connected. I have to turn off the monitor switch and turn it on again for it to be detected. I looked around but didn't find any good way to solve it... |