I feel like computers have gotten 1000x more powerful and still somehow slower and more annoying to use in the last 40 years.
the good old commodore 64 booted in 2 seconds. as soon as it was up, you could start writing commands; no login, no updates, no popups…
It’s sounds like your the perfect user for Linux. Customize or Minimize to your hearts content.
Linux with a nice SSD will boot quickly
I have a machine running Linux with dwm, but since I can’t use it at my job I end up rarely using it at all :p