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I am continually in awe of how rapidly terrible its gotten since Windows 7. I loved Win7 - it just worked, with a sleek presentation. Every release after was worse overall (I'm not saying good features weren't added, mind you - but the aggregate experience has been worse with every release for me).

(Note: I fully realize Win7 had a ton of windows warts under the hood - I'm just talking about the user experience)

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You're telling me you don't want a microsoft account, automatic onedrive sync, and useless ads from the start bar?? :)

Ads in the start bar is something that makes me refuse install Windows nowadays. I paid for the thing, why do I get ads? And why do I need an MS account? Just idiotic.

I feel like if there was some way to backport whatever useful things are in windows 11 (and/or windows 8/10/11+ exclusive games somehow detect their expected OS via polyfills) it would be something I might actually pay for.

Or at least someone should upload a no-BS win11 ISO somewhere.

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