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I could have stayed on Windows 7 for the rest of my life.

I use macOS now and basically hate it.

(but to be honest I have never used Windows 11 and barely used 10)

Give KDE Plasma a shot! You can even try it in QEMU with virgl for graphics acceleration without risking anything more than an hour or two of time setting it up.

https://github.com/knazarov/homebrew-qemu-virgl

Well I'm on macOS because I have a M1 laptop...

Also I use a lot of audio softwares and it's hard to run them on Linux, I would need to try how much those download managers (another rant worthy subject) and Windows VSTs can really run on Linux. But when I get a new PC I will.

I mean, virtualizing with good hardware acceleration and integration can kind of be the best of both worlds, right? You're not replacing macOS, you're supplementing it with FOSS software that you _may_ find more tolerable, and if not, just use the same software and workflow that you have been.

Windows 10 is great. It finally made me to switch to Linux with KDE. Couldn't be happier.

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