joking aside, windows 7 is by FAR the greatest looking version of windows. i’m probably biased because it’s the one i used during my formative years, but holy shit man everything from win8 and up just looks like complete soulless corpo garbage. that new shit looks like a free powerpoint template
the CEO is the former founder of the “Names Database”
for the love of god, use anything but DDG. Qwant is EU-based and has decent results, SearX is another one which lets you choose between instances (or host your own).
please stop taking US “privacy” services seriously. i was hoping people would know better on here, compared to reddit
DEFINITELY check your OS screen hz settings!!! i got my 240 monitor last year and spent 2-3 days very confused thinking it was all placebo, then i randomly found the settings and it turned out windows had default set it to run at 60hz. crank that shit up and the difference is crystal clear, trust me!