Thanks!

But, we have been taking chisels & sledgehammers to shape our Windows installations to the shapes we like but Microsoft doesn't approve and try to counter since Windows 95.

I gave up the whole ecosystem. I'm fine.

Good, I have given up a long time ago, I was around 13 years old when I installed my first Linux distribution and I am fine with it ever since.

(I went through OpenSolaris and FreeBSD, too, for desktop).

Looks like we migrated to Linux around the same time. Nice!

And, god knows if you'll have to keep using these multiple times as the system updates are known to reset stuff.... lol

Yeah, most likely. It is awful.