Maybe it's time to switch to Linux if you don't like to be tracked and have ads everywhere for a product that is not free.
Professionally, I've used all three major operating system branches. Windows was a hack when it came to things like terminal support. Linux needed me to hack into config files pretty quickly just to make it work, and it's lacking the UI polish that the other operating systems have. Mac combines the best of both worlds.
Privately I've always used Windows, simply because all games work on there at the intended performance. It's not in the way.
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There were a few pre-installed apps but that's completely normal to be honest. If you go in a shop and buy a PC then it's usually full of that shit. If you remove it, it doesn't come back. They're not really ads but things the average user will want (I want office!!!)
In Germany I have only ever seen OneDrive popups in Win10, which can be considered either a "suggestion" or an "advertisement".
When the benefit of doing so is greater than the cost of switching.
That may be true already for some group of users like web developers. However most other user segments are critically underserved on other OSes and so the experience isn't even in the same league.
I am a very experienced Linux user both on desktop and server side of things. In fact 90% of what I do targets Linux but all the desktop solutions are quite frankly a mess. After 20 years of infighting and rewriting the universe, there is no cohesive desktop that even makes any sense at all and isn't bug ridden. I am forever fighting small things and edge cases to get anything working. Within a few days, it gets toasted and back to windows. I don't have enough hours left before I'm dead to actually argue with these things.
And as for MacOS, the hardware went down the toilet, you tend to have to fight the OS at every available opportunity, the pricing is quite frankly terrible and it's utterly inflexible. It's Apple's way or a punch in the balls. No thanks. At best I'm hanging on lightly to iOS as that's not too problematic when it's being inflexible (apart from HEIC which is a pain in the ass)
I also beg people to find a better place where I can throw together an 8-core workstation class machine with 32Gb of RAM, 4k 27" display, decent GPU, replaceable NVMe storage and high quality input devices for < £1300 that actually works reliably and the software doesn't get in the way.
I often see this sentiment but I guess I don't get it. You are actually seeing a response from the developer about this, that's a good thing! They have repeatedly acknowledged the usability problem in the bug report I found [1], while explaining that the implementation would be difficult.
I might wonder why in Windows I am not able to resize windows with a hotkey+the mouse instead of fumbling for the border to click on. Personally I find that much more of a usability issue. But I would never get some response from a Windows developer about it. I might make a post asking about it on a Microsoft support forum and get some volunteer unqualified Certified Microsoft Helper explaining to me why my use case is invalid, but you would probably never get any real contact with a developer.
Wasn't it only Windows 10 that finally allowed you to scroll inactive windows under the mouse cursor, something that I'm sure worked fine on Xfree86 in the 90's? Using Windows can be pretty tiring too.
And no, VM/IOMMU/Looking Glass is not a solution, it's a total pain in the butt and you're still running Windows anyway.