I actually do not use it, not out of any kind of moral stance but it just runs slow for me.

That is extremely cool!

Aww hell yeah! i’ve been waiting for this one. Once it’s been out a few days i intend to upgrade my main rig to it.

The sad thing is, they probably did get a bonus, then set about how to further monetize it

yeah it’s absolutely ridiculous. Whoever decided that the start menu, of all things, needed to be encrusted with garbage should have been fired on the spot.

I got tired of windows pretending it knew better than me what i wanted, whether that was updates or security scans or fuck knows what else.

The final straw was when they shitted up the start menu with garbage and tried to shove their app store down my throat. At that point i was done.

Yeah i literally just run whatever the default in Linux Mint is. It’s got everything where i expect it to be and has no friction, and that’s good enough for me.

Linux mint is often recommended for new people, and has a interface very similar to windows. In my own experience, it’s very fast to get it up and running.