I mean, you ended up on *Mastodon* ffs no matter how long you tried to fight it. You are that person.

“Just install Linux” is obnoxious but… you know you’re going to have to eventually, right? The commercial OSes get less usable, fashier, and frankly more insulting to the consumer with each passing year. At some point even you will have had enough.

The jobs are drying up, chips and rare earths are getting tariffed, and having to get another year out of the old hardware is in the cards for all of us.

If you need a tech friend to get you set up, you probably did with Windows, too. It's ok.