I agree

But how many paying customers need features that are not in the online/cloud versions of Office?

Sure this is a shrinking number of people?

Agreed

I think Windows is primarily a development environment for Xbox, just as macOS is primarily a development environment for iOS Everything else of value from Microsoft is available via the web/cloud (even Office)

Eventually, Microsoft might even decide that it’s more profitable to abandon Windows completely

I actually just switched from Bazzite to Bluefin on my devices, even my gaming PC

Mostly because I wanted a more minimal/essential experience with less pre-installed packages

I’m sure I’m sacrificing a little gaming performance, but nothing noticeable by me so far

:shrug:

Might be worth trying a bunch of different live USBs to find a distribution with a working sound setup, and then seeing what it’s doing differently compared to Zorin