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Back in those early days of using Linux, you'd have heard me screaming at the top of my lungs from any given mountaintop that I'd never use a piece of software from MS. That was then, this is now.

Linux Mint beats Windows 11 in more ways than I expected, but switching still comes with real trade-offs.