I understand you. I'm forced to be used by Windows at work. There are so many problems I already forgot most of it.
But still, every bluetooth connections hangs the mouse for 2 seconds, explorer worst program ever written ever in any operating system. Windows boots with 7GB of ram being used of the 8 the machine has. Every day I collect some goodies for a book or page to show how bad it is.
It is worst than the worst Linux you can find. And it should not be because the amount of money goes into it, it's absurd.
Then people go into Mac because while being bad for privacy and a lock environment, it is still best than Windows.
But Linux is not like any of those. Some companies that take care of a specific distro, make a good job, including Ubuntu, that I really don't like.
But you do have a stable RockyLinux or Manjaro, both with a few supported desktop environments that work.
I also don't like Kubuntu or anything from Ubuntu. Gnome works but I don't like it.
So all that is left if Plasma and XFCE. You do have many others that are nice, but it is better to test them out first, on real hardware.
There are a few things that only work on Windows, mostly software that checks if it is not Windows.
But you do have all on Linux. Desktop environments and windows managers, server software and games, email, graphics, you name it! You also have Windows software that runs better on Linux.
Updates? Lol! Windows updates? Yeah sure. And people say ArchLinux is too rolling! LOL!
Do you know how many updates Teams gets in the morning? Yes, wait for the afternoon.
Ok so what is my choice? ArchLinux with XFCE. I do like Manjaro on all flavours. Love RockyLinux also.
What a nice surprise! The only out connection it makes is to ECB to get rates if you want it.
I bet it was really hard to create this "simple" interface. Even I added a few records in a few seconds! Nice maps and report overview. It has a mobile interface! 2FA and it works! Import and export.
The alternative is to use a meta-search engine which uses all of the above without feeding these data parasites any personally identifiable data. There's plenty of those to choose from; I use SearXNG [1] which forwards my queries to a number of engines and presents the results - and with that I mean the actual results, clear from tracking links etc. It is not perfect in that there's a persistent issue with search engine timeouts which is quite irritating but I'd rather wait a few more seconds for search results than feed the data parasites.
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