damn, I should’ve know that I’ll get this respond haha. I personally use dual boot Ubuntu 25.04 and win11 ltsc (cursed by some people’s standard I know but just hear me out I hate snap as much as you do) and I just thought win11 ltsc is the closest thing (the security updates, no AI, bloat bs) to what op was looking for from my experiences:

I literally just want Windows 7 again but with security updates, driver support, and back end technology upgrades.

what about win10/11 ltsc?

Some AI arts might be hard to tell if it’s AI but this one is pretty much the default ChaatGPT comic look, drawing style (or the lack of), no signature and the font.