Also nostalgia answer but i loved gen 6, Y was my first game. Mega evolution was rad as hell and getting mewtwo from the movie was awesome.

But the delta episode of Alpha Sapphire made AS my favourite, the idea of a whole nother timeline connecting it back to the older games blew my little mind. Then they didn't do mega evolution in the next gen and I stopped playing

have you tried reinstalling windows:)

And a Linux reboot takes like 40s at most and everything works. Where in Windows it takes like 2m to be able to log in and a good 5-10m for all the apps to start working at normal speed