Shortening the URL makes it possible to have significantly lower resolution QR codes, which is almost always more useful. Able to be rendered on more mediums, able to be read with lower quality readers.

Try Aurora which is Kinoite with some nice extras added

That was the “just works Windows killer” for me.

You can rebase directly to it to just try it out, and simply rebase back to standard Kinoite if you don’t like it.