modern computers are slower and more annoying
I feel like computers have gotten 1000x more powerful and still somehow slower and more annoying to use in the last 40 years.
the good old commodore 64 booted in 2 seconds. as soon as it was up, you could start writing commands; no login, no updates, no popups..
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It's sounds like your the perfect user for Linux. Customize or Minimize to your hearts content.
Linux with a nice SSD will boot quickly
I have a machine running Linux with dwm, but since I can't use it at my job I end up rarely using it at all :p
The hardware is much, much faster. It's just Windows that is slower, from all the bits that load on startup.
sure, it is faster, but every OS loads a tonne more stuff - not just windows. same with most applications and websites, almost everything is extremely bloated these days.