| Most of those benefits were available in Windows 10, with less of the pain and shortcomings of Windows 11. I like that list, and appreciate those items. I run Windows... begrudgingly 11. But why can't I have the above without... - full screen ads for Microsoft 365 / Copilot - inserting Copilot everywhere - changing the UI and removing user choice, such as where you pin your task bar, how you like your start menu to work / look - forcing your documents and desktop into OneDrive without asking and making it hard to separate them back out Windows didn't necessarily go backwards with some of their moves, but they confidently went anti-consumer and pro-adware in quite a few of them. EDIT: Like this... https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-com... (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459296 ) |
I'm not saying Windows is infallible, but it's actually getting quite insufferable to hear nothing but the Windows hate train day in and day out as if it has no redeeming qualities and the only reason we aren't on Linux is because some game developers want nasty anti cheat/DRM measures. I think the proliferation of this is largely due in part to "Windows sucks" being an actual valid avenue of revenue for creators.