> The entire point of working for someone else is to attain enough money that you don't need to any more and you can treat it as more of an optional thing.
If that were the singular goal/point, then most people should simply give up working entirely because they'll never reach it. They're working their own version of the sunk cost fallacy.
Very few of us in society do work that truly matters. Work is like a colouring book: A complete waste of your time (though work might be less fun, YMMV).
It would be lovely to give up the charade of the importance of work.
The passphrase is what makes it a poor user experience. Many people simply need an encrypted disk that you can't boot offline and not the boot-time PIN/passphrase (which Microsoft abandoned as the default in Windows 8, I believe, again due to UX).
It would certainly make you stand out on that network map compared to others who are even more boring than you are (read: just about everyone, sans criminal enterprises as noted above).
> fonts as this is an area where I believe both Linux and macOS are ahead of Windows.
Windows caught up quite some time ago to macOS. I don't see Linux as superior with font handling. Certainly lacks on the rendering side of things (DPI etc).
> comparable with advertising in the Start menu and file browser
Wouldn't know. I use Win 11 Pro so those updates don't seem to have come down to it (yet?) and use Win 10 Ent at work where those will never arrive.
You'll be trading one set of known frustrations with another set of unknown frustrations.
A few years ago, I ran Fedora w/ KDE Plasma. What _seemed_ to be random is the GTK fonts throughout the UI changed to a mono-spaced font regardless of what the control panel showed.
It "resolved itself" within a few weeks.
I don't know if it was an update that caused and subsequently resolved the issue, or something else I did.
This was just one of many hair-pulling examples I ran into across KDE Plasma and Gnome on Fedora.
I have different frustrations with both Windows and macOS.
Windows has always had this churn. Upgrading from NT4 > 2000 > XP > Vista, etc all required a time investment to figure out new features, group policies, creating an image (Autopilot removed this requirement), etc.
Win 11 changing the Settings CPL doesn’t change the overall body of work required.