I've wasted like 8 hours in the last two days trying to upgrade windows 10 to 11 so my motherboards wifi drivers can be installed.

It just worked in Linux. I don't get where this comes from, because every time I hit a problem in Linux, there's a solution.

In windows, you get a vague hex error code that leads you to a support page where the error could be caused by one of a dozen reasons.

And on top of that, MS is constantly hostile to any user who just wants a basic OS to use their computer with.

So couple of issues there. Never upgrade windows. Fresh install only. Never had a good day upgrading it.

Secondly, there isn't always a solution in Linux. I've got one now where something is utterly broken and it's 5 layers of maintainers down and no one gives a shit.

Windows 11 has begun making it a lot harder to install with local logins. They just disabled the typical method for enabling local only.

I want to upgrade in order to retain that local account.

Install LTSC: https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

Then use massgrave hwid activator.

My experience is the opposite. Epgot a hold of a bunch of floppies in 1991. Dual booted so I could play Diablo. Some time around '98/99 got tired of dual booting.

Steam getting proton was a godsend, all those years of games became playable so now I have a huge back catalog.

> Plus many years of server-side experience says to me "I should probably just use FreeBSD" in that space.

Not a bad idea. This is exactly what I do on my daily driver.

Meanwhile people who actually get stuff done all use linux :D