Death to Amerikkka
I use Linux Mint on my laptop but I also use my wife’s laptop with the latest version of Windows some. The contrast is stark. Mint just works - simple, intuitive, no fuss. Windows is just so bloated, it’s amazing. I’m old enough to remember using Windows 95 and on. It wasn’t always this way with them, but I don’t know how people can stand using it nowadays.
I switched to Linux exactly 10 years ago, last windows SO I used was Win7, coudln’t really complain about it back then for the uses I had.
But trying to use it now is a nightmarish foreign land, for example:
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It had a stupid text thingy bottom left showing latest currency rates “0.2% up USD to MXN”.
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Searching for an installed program also showed a
googleBing! search of the said word -
Nobody has been able to set the clock properly. If you set it to Argentina timezone, it shows 3 hours more, if you set it to the hour that should be, sometimes works, but next time you boot it it might be 3 hours in the future or three hours in the past, or overriden the setting option.
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For search, you may need to select the correct program for 1st time for it to remember, the next time you search it should be the first/best result. May need to disable cloud search from search setting (from “…” icon when searching).
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Currency rate can hidden (Taskbar setting -> Toggle Widgets to Off). https://www.lifewire.com/disable-news-and-interests-taskbar-in-windows-11-5190865
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Timezone will be wrong if you dual boot with Linux, it’s best to make Windows use UTC time. https://www.howtogeek.com/323390/how-to-fix-windows-and-linux-showing-different-times-when-dual-booting/
