Linux is much better on hdd, windows upgrading to ssd was absolutely seismic, especially for games.
Linux you notice, but once the applications are running you don’t notice it too much till you REALLY run low on memory, or keep opening new docs or something.
They didn’t go back to the taliban because they wanted to.
Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China were supporting the taliban, and gave them what they needed to take the country back. We didn’t focus on cleaning up Afghanistan because our moron in chief threw all our resources at Iraq because it had oil, so we lost twice over.
Nobody wanted the taliban back except Pakistan and China, Pakistan because they consider the taliban to be ‘useful’ allies against India, and China because the taliban made them lucrative resource deals: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Afghanistan-turmoil/Afghanistan-s-6.5bn-mine-deals-with-China-others-dig-up-questions