Stick with Windows. Microft will deliver paradigm shifts and you will have no say in the matter. They are already removing options for disabling Copilot, and for all the promised backward compatibility they are letting go of features that lots of old Windows software depended on, as they introduce features similar to ones in Linux. I cannot really fault them for all of these changes, but the difference is actually one of choice and privacy, and not really the one you seem to think it is.

It is not recursive though. A directory is a special kind of inode that enumerates file inode numbers and when that list changes then the contents of that “directory inode” change. But if /home/user/.bashrc is deleted then the timestamp for /home will not be affected because the timestamps are associated with inodes rather than directory entries (assuming no symbolic links are involved).

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/inodes-linux-filesystem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/inode

Just to second that, the model series is Latitude, not Inspiron. and yeah, the i5 processor options I got over the years beat the i7 on processing power. The Precision models are a step up, but not any kind of low cost and seem not quite as tough.

Maybe if enough people file feedback on the name change they will reconsider. At least they will have a glut of feedback to deal with.