Yes, agreed. He seems to regard life as a zero-sum game, in which he can’t win unless someone else loses, so he doesn’t understand the concept of win-win. It’s a kind of cognitive bias which is a serious weakness in someone who apparently imagines himself to be a master of ‘the art of the deal’.
Yes, I’m new to Lemmy, ex-Reddit, and now I’m looking at what else I can do. I ran Linux Mint on an old laptop for many years, but that was when I was still working and I also had a company laptop on Windows if I needed it. So now I’m retired and currently I only have a refurbished Lenovo with Win 10, which goes out of support soon. I suppose I could do dual boot on that machine, but I’d rather have Windows in a VM for the rare occasions when I can’t get something to run in Wine. I have no idea where I’d buy a copy of Win 11, but presumably Microsoft have a store.
Yes, similar here. Windows 10 had been telling me I needed to upgrade to 11 but that my PC (a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a pretty decent spec for 5 years ago - i7 and 16GB of RAM) couldn’t support it and would have to be replaced. I had run Linux Mint for many years on a Samsung from around 2010, which still works, so I thought now is the time to dump Windows. Installed Mint 22 and everything just works.