Sounds like OP wanted windows, but he installed a linux distro instead, that's your 1st mistake, don't expect other OSes to be windows Your second mistake was

Sounds like OP wanted windows, but he installed a linux distro instead, that's your 1st mistake, don't expect other OSes to be windows Your second mistake was to think a distro = linux, that's a misconception, linux is the experience you craft for yourself, not something someone made for you If you expect things to be made just for you, then you shouldn't use a linux distribution, you should buy whatever product that was made for you You didn't buy SystemD, Flatpack and all the other crap, so why do you use them? Linux is about scaling from microcontrollers to datacenters, it's not made to just be "the perfect desktop", that's not compatible, and it's great the way it is Things like ChromiumOS or macOS sounds like the unix environment you need, but since you went back to Windows, i feel like you just wanted Windows, and that's fine, expectations should be defined, not complain about something not made for you I am a long time linux user, all i need is a window manager, a status bar, a terminal and bash, anything else: i cherry pick or i script myself, and that's what i love about linux