Not the same at all though.

Unless you run into particular bios issues like csm and hd formats. It took quite a while and lot of research before I was even able to begin installation, because every distro I tried just hung even before it initiated the process of installing.

The update and driver problem is just one side of the multifacetted windows 11 problems though. The ads, spyware and AI (which is definitely going to get more invasive when they stop supporting windows 10 and they know they have a captive audience) is another great reason to abandon that OS.

Those “social benefits” are band-aids needed because of a non-functioning government solution like a non-fath based welfare state. The reason you don’t see them as much in functioning countries, is because they are needed much less.

It is not so much the “I want to use it as a toy regardless of the environmental consequences” crowd like you that is the main problem. That would be the “I want to use it to create profit regardless of the environmental and artistic consequences” which is the main problem. They will eventually completely replace actual art, because it profits them and they have no limits to how much slop they can produce.

Just a small bungalow with its own private gym.