I also used a habits tracker (a bare bones app I found on f-droid) to track things I wanna do consistently like waking up early in the morning or going out on bike rides

I limited my use of social media to 30min per day (used a time limit app to enforce it), it helped me regulate my time, having more time in the day to do stuff and going to bed early and waking up earlier

yeah, it’s not like windows is better, it’s just what came with the pc and people got used to it