You’re being down voted because Lemmy is a Linux fan echo chamber, but my experience with Windows 11 is similar to yours.

I resisted the upgrade for a long time after reading about all the issues it apparently had. My work laptop updated first which made me realise it’s not that bad, a few annoying things but nothing system breaking. I’ve had windows 11 on my personal pc for about 2-3 months and it’s been the same, absolutely fine with a few minor things here and there.

For the average user Windows is absolutely fine. I’d say that anyone using Linux or thinking of switching to Linux isn’t an average user. And that’s fine. Everyone can use whatever OS they want. I’m choosing to stick with Windows.

We’re kind of in-between generations but I think most of us have more in common with millennials than with gen z.

I’m with Zen now and my experience has been mostly great. I haven’t done any of the more technical things you’ve mentioned so I can’t comment on that, but in general they’ve been consistently reliable and fast for me. The only issue I’ve had has been due to a fault with the router a few months ago but the customer support sorted it within a day by walking me through how to factory reset the router.

Fusilli. The spiral shape allows the right amount of pasta sauce to stick to it so you get a nice pasta-to-sauce ratio.

I think you might be right about that

Seeing as I live in the north east my options seem to be either north of Aberdeen or south of Birmingham. I’m going to say Bristol. I’ve never visited but it seems to have a nice reputation.

I think I’d be ok with removing my ad blocker if ads were simple and non intrusive and creators actually got a decent chunk of the ad revenue. The reason I use it however is that most websites have proven that if you give them an inch they’ll take a mile. So many websites now have so many ads that the actual content is barely visible through the mid-page ads, auto play videos, popups and banners. And that’s not even mentioning the tracking and cookies they now request/use. The internet has become unusable without an ad blocker. If I want to support someone’s content I’d rather use whatever donation method they have set up.