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by ChuckNorris89 1300 days ago
>Many seem to not share your experience that is an ad free, lovely OS.

Because many just love to shit on it without having used it lately, because hating everything Microsoft is a timeless trend. Just like hating Nickelback and Internet Explorer. You must hate them because the internet said so, otherwise you get downvoted, to teach you to fall in line with the official party line.

People would also hate Edge despite benchmarks showing its latest iterations, even before the transition to chromium, as being one of the fastest and most performat browsers out there. If Microsoft would cure cancer tomorrow, people would still hate them just because.

Therefore the opinion of various heavily biased internet swarm minds is largely irelevant and should be taken with a glorious boulder of salt.

Don't get me wrong, I hate on Microsoft enough when they deserve it, but, as a long time Windows and Linux user, I can't really fault W11 as an OS as it's the best windows so far by a long shot IMHO.

I also hated W11 when I installed it a year ago, but since then all updates brough only improvements. I never though I'd say this but it's now a much better alternative to windows 10 for both coding and entertainment, it has put me off from switching to Linux fully, that, and Fedora and OpenSUSE deciding to remove VA-API hardware acceleration for AMD users.

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I get the logic regarding hating on a product because it's trendy, however, I've followed MS Windows for a long time and more importantly listened to people around me, skilled teams of Windows software developers; with many different personalities and backgrounds; GUI designers, system driver devs, kernel devs, windows internals experts, and what do we all seem to have in common? We do not like Windows 11. Many of us used to praise Windows back in the day (WIN2K-XP-7 era).

To be frank with you, MS deserves all the criticism and I truly believe the 'biased internet swarm minds' to be correct this one time. Agree to disagree.

> People would also hate Edge despite benchmarks showing its latest iterations, even before the transition to chromium, as being one of the fastest and most performat browsers out there.

No Firefox is but it depends on the hardware. I'd encourage anyone to do their own benchmark - don't let anyone fool you with these paid benchmark guru sites.