Your experience sounds a lot like mine - I first cut my teeth on the Linux desktop when I was a kid, using Ubuntu 7.10. As I had an Athlon 64 at the time I thou

Your experience sounds a lot like mine - I first cut my teeth on the Linux desktop when I was a kid, using Ubuntu 7.10. As I had an Athlon 64 at the time I thought it'd be cool to run the amd64 build, only to find out that there were no amd64 drivers for my NIC! Played around with various distros and DEs, but ended up switching back to Windows due to various sharp corners in the desktop UX. Always kept a toe in the water by occasionally booting in to a live DVD or a VM over the years. The progress has been incremental, sometimes a step back (e.g. early GNOME 3.x), but when you look at the bigger picture, it's definitely noticeable and going in the right direction. I've tried Windows 11 and can't get along with the UI, not to mention the forced online account and data mining. I'll keep running Windows 10 until it goes out of support in 2025 and evaluate my options then. I can see three possible paths: * Switch to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, which buys me another 5 years of support * Switch to Windows 11 (or whatever they call the next version), if they roll back some of the annoying changes * Switch to Linux - increasingly looking like the path for me, given the improvements in UI/UX