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I usually go with Xfce.

I don't hate windows, it just annoys me. I've run linux in a VM under windows for years and about 2 years ago it annoyed me enough (I think it was something about a patch breaking things badly enough that I had to restore the system) that I said 'screw it' and switched the arrangement to linux and the few windows programs I really wanted running in wine. I've been skipping back and forth between them since Yggdrasil was a thing, so it wasn't like it was uncharted territory.

And after hearing some of win11's BS, I'm glad I did.

You should definitely ask a bunch of random people on lemmy what to do instead of what the doctors say...

Ah yes, the update nobody actually wants...

Vivaldi has said they will as long as the code is in Chromium, and are planning on it going away by June of next year.

No idea about Brave, I don't use it and never will.

This did give me the motivation to switch to back to Firefox, and later possibly Librewolf though, so thanks Google.

Pity. This is going to make Vivaldi's userbase implode. Ah well, hopefully Firefiox will put some work into customization.

I feel like you'd probably enjoy wandering through the halfbakery...

No. I checked it out twice, looked around, and noped out. Haven't been back since.

I don't care what it's called as long as it's a decent distro and does what I need it to do.

This. I've never voted for 'not the other guy', but I will this time. Honestly, the democrats could run Vinny the Wino and I'd vote for him over Trump.

If you're going to not use software because you don't like a program with a similar name, I really don't know what to tell you... 🤷‍♂️

Cheaper than what? Scrounged free parts?