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Hey, thanks for the write-up. I've been losing my patience with Windows for a long time, and seeing "AI" in an add on my start menu made me see red. I downloaded Linux Mint on my laptop for the first time and have been tinkering around with it for the past few days - it's definitely got a learning curve, but I really appreciate how flexible it feels versus Windows. I'm one of those people who have to go into Powershell with any new Windows device right off the bat, so I can remove most of the apps I don't need - an Xbox game interface, really? - but even I can remember a time when it wasn't this bad. I'm not even that old: the earliest Windows system I have concrete memories of is Windows XP!