To add my "whatever" voice... My work can afford to do things the Windows way. If I need an expensive tool like Visio, I tell them I need it and it (and the l

To add my "whatever" voice... My work can afford to do things the Windows way. If I need an expensive tool like Visio, I tell them I need it and it (and the licence for it) appears. Some of our refresh laptops are on Windows 11, I'm still on Windows 10. Some annoyances creep through, e.g. every time you open an Edge window you're presented with a screen full of distracting stuff, even in the work installation. For home, free tools on Linux are more than adequate. Google Docs, or LibreOffice. For creating things, no problem. No need to perfectly parse two decades' worth of slightly malformed Microsoft Office documents. In fact, the token Windows machine has only been booted up for the following tasks in the past 12 months: Update the maps on an "LM" version Garmin car GPS, and do income taxes. The stuff Microsoft is doing to their desktop environment looks like a lot like a private equity outfit trying to milk the last bit of "brand value" out of a company that it's pillaging by cutting engineering, switching to cheaper manufacturing but still enjoying "premium brand" cachet for a while.