• The third route: install Win11 IoT Enterprise LTSC
• The fourth route: install Gentoo

Who the fucks tries to debloat windows?

Honestly I've found most distros pretty solid. It's just the software that can be buggy. Gnome for me crashes on gpu's with 4gb of vram, like the rx 5500 and 1650. Steam is better now but I remember the interface being very jank. Left clicking something just made the drop down menu disappear and not actually select it. A lot of programs still not scaling right on Wayland even tho xorg has been dead for years on years. Ect...

But even with all these issues I've had recently and not so recently... Still so much better than windows

If you are installing Windows with that route, you sure as hell won't be picking beginner friendly distro.

So gentoo it is then

mfs dont know about "O&O ShutUp 10++"

I have a PC with a version of Ameliorated Windows 10 on it. At a glance the project seemed promising, but then after install it did this thing where the lockscreen background is supposedly a blurred picture of the guy who made it. No matter how much I dug through the settings apparently I, as the owner of my PC, do not have high enough admin privileges to get rid of that despite my account being the administrator...? Pretty sus.

On top of that the update process takes more effort, so I haven't updated the system in literally years. The whole situation overall leaves me unable to trust my own computer, but even that feels more trustworthy than the default Windows-is-malware experience.

Next time I turn that PC on will be to install Debian.

Let me guess... its a laptop isn't it?

After months of trying, I still can't get Linux to recognize the 2.5Gbit network cards, or to function with multiple monitors. If the hardware support was better, I would ditch Windows for good instantly.

I decided to spend a day debugging linux boot failure, which I found to be caused by the Nvidia driver.