I have a hard time finding a good battery.

I bought an internal and external battery and the external one quickly started bloating.

Try Plop Boot Manager: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

It can boot from a floppy or from a CD drive, and it lets you chainload into a live usb even on old computers.

I used it to boot from CD from a floppy in an old Pentium MMX and it worked great (although slow, of course)

It's tacky, but not the end of the world.

It remins me of some gnome themes from 2005-2009.

I'd choose that a thousand times over an ad filled start menu

The real culprit is the International Division of Labour.

Some countries sell primary goods and other countries manufacture them.

But it turns out it's the manufacturing industry the one that trickles wealth the most, raises salaries and improves education overall.

China knew this. And used all its non-democratic powers to make their country a manufacturing superpower.

A country that only extracts natural resources can't hold a numerous population. And if it does, a big % of them is doomed to a life of misery.

I have macOS shortcuts hot branded in my brain.

I'd prefer to adopt a few of these programs than having to configure i3 and use ctrl for everything