Your experience is not invalid, but It's fucked up that you're giving Windows credit for "just working" when Windows doesn't even try to support dual booting. In fact the reason Linux is having so much trouble is because it has to tiptoe so that Windows doesn't break.

If you don't like Gnome or Mint Cinnamon, why not try KDE? Something like Kubuntu, perhaps? I use Fedora KDE myself.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

From Window's perspective, there's no need to dual boot. But I get what you're saying. I'm not trying to defend Microsoft, and think that they've been enshittifying windows for years now.

But everything works without jumping through hoops. And if it doesn't, the fix is usually very easy and done through a GUI 99% of the time.

But you are right. There are many flavours of Linux to try. Aesthetics aren't my priority, though. I do need things to work without spending hours trying to figure it out.

I'm at an age where messing around on my computer for days on end is long gone. 😵

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Couldnt OP use the boot loader feature of Windows and add their distro as anotger option?