I did and I was pretty impressed. The way they modified the Gnome desktop with extensions is the way Gnome should've been in the first place. It's actually usable.
Hahahahahahaha yeah! I bought my first distro too in 2000, and it was also Mandrake. Yeah I fucked up a few times but was quickly up and running. I had just started my operating systems class in college where they taught us Linux with Red Hat so I was able to pick up quickly. By the end of the semester I was helping the class along with the teacher lol.
To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how.
What device are you using?