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Originally Posted by Sirtel
After installing ExplorerPatcher for taskbar and start menu, I guess I can manage with Windows 11. Those were my biggest beefs with Win 11.
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ExplorerPatcher and Open-Shell go a long way to making Windows 11 tolerable, along with some tweaks from Winaero Tweaker. But I think that openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed are worth investigating as full on replacements, Leap if you want something enterprise stable, Tumbleweed if you want to dip your toes in the waters of rolling distributions. I've been on Tumbleweed since early 2024 -- including gaming (Steam and Heroic) -- and I do not regret it.
Or, there's Ubuntu and a number of derivatives. Mint is my recommendation for a distro that generally works out of the box and has a familiar interface. Vanilla Ubuntu also works well out of the box but I'm very not a fan of the direction Canonical have been going with their desktop UI choices.
Only major speed bump with Linux is nVidia graphics but that's improved drastically in the past year or so.