i didn’t mean purely mathematically. but from the physics standpoint. in other words, if you provide enough dark energy and shape it into a specific configuration, it will generate space-time where time travel is possible in practice.

traveling back in time is not mathematically disallowed by the general relativity.

in fact there is a lot of work done on the topic, and lots of potential scenarios proposed (which usually involve describing the space-time warped into weird 4D shapes). what GR does tell you is what kind of matter/energy would produce such spaces (since in GR these two are intertwined), and that’s kind of where common sense works again: most proposed geometries do require either negative energy densities or mathematical singularities (which to be fair are not impossible, but we kinda never seen that, aside from dark energy).

on the other hand – faster-than-light travel is also possible – albeit with similar constraints.

I can give you reasons I have for not installing Linux on one of my laptops:

• Intel graphics support, or the absence of it;

• decent touchscreen support (Windows Ink);

• WSL which I use with NixOS, and it does simplify most of my dev needs;

• unfortunately, Adobe apps which I still heavily rely on (I’d wish I had an alternative),

• PowerPoint (again, I’d wish I had an alternative).

If you want to comment: "oh but have you tried Affinity, Pixie, Only Office, Libre Impress, reveal.js, {enter your fav presentation/photo editing tool} – yes I have, and no, unfortunately, it’s not even close. Also, to be clear, I’ve never paid, and never will for the Windows/Adobe products.