And then everything is slower than on Linux. Even otherwise it takes a long time for my desktop to be usable.
It wants to install updates again and again. Starting and closing Windows can be a pain. It sprang onto my screen in a fraction of a second.
Then I tried it on the open source LibreOffice which I had been using on Linux. I opened a complicated file made on a previous version of MS Word in the latest MS Word on my laptop. Opening programs takes longer than on my Linux installation. It takes much more space on my hard disk. The other side is that Windows grabs you with a bear hug. I can hear it fine there, to be sure, but there is an extra oomph in my headphones under Windows. The sound hardware company Realtek has special device drivers for sound under Windows. More features of my mother’s printer-scanner work now. The apple of my eye, the stylus my university gave me to write on a whiteboard during online classes, directly converts my handwriting into computer text on Microsoft OneNote. Why? Well, yes it is true that lots of devices work better with Windows, especially the newest ones. So I got my university’s ever-helpful IT folks to install Windows and MS Office on my laptop. I would be able to see more people, use more devices, feel happier and the sky would be blue again. I couldn’t buy a new printer-cum-scanner because the new ones weren’t supported in Linux either. I couldn’t scan from my mother’s all-in-one printer-cum-scanner. I felt irritated with my Linux version of Microsoft Teams, I could see only four faces of my colleagues at a time (on the rare occasions that they switched on their cameras). I felt fed up with my Linux version of Zoom, I couldn’t see my students most of the time. That feeling finds different pegs to express itself upon. One feels more and more frustrated and tied down. Then a few days ago I began to think of using Windows again.