[jyrkesh]

I'm in a similar boat. I use MacOS with the work-issued laptop, and due to a longstanding effort from Apple to make inroads in education, I used Macs at school since OS8. But for everything else--gaming, web, Telegram, remote admin--I think Win 11 is fine.

I ran Gentoo exclusively on multiple boxes for years. I still use NixOS to host a few workloads for friends and family. But if I want to just __do stuff__, Windows is still the easiest way to just plug anything in, run any program, sync any thing, whatever...and now it has a bunch of trapdoors to more native Cygwin-type things...and I just don't want to reboot or keep two systems up to date anymore.

But yes, there's sketchy telemetry and phone home, and I'd _rather_ run something where the code's at least _theoretically_ been reviewed by someone who's not in the state's pocket. But I'm just tired, and it's good enough...