Since you don't own the software, you own the license to use the software, the next release will just name it "Satya Computer"

Apple is a boutique hotel that looks really nice but isn't all that comfortable and where if you don't like the defaults or find any problem you're told you're using it wrong. And you can't just check in, for some reason you have to take a ticket and mill around for 1/2 hour until your name is called .

Windows is a corporate hotel with a big screen TV you can't turn off showing you ads, no curtains and giant brightly lit billboards everywhere outside, phone calls and knocks at the door every 5 minutes to suggest things you can do, and round the clock audio and video recording.

Linux is camping, where all your equipment is missing some small piece (no tent peg, no regulator on gas stove, sleeping bag has no opening, firewood is all wet...) and you have to ask around the campground for how to do the last little bit to get it working.

My understanding is that LTSC with Windows updates turned off completely is the closest thing you can get to that o̶l̶d̶s̶k̶o̶o̶l̶ civilised, respectful, "My Computer" feeling.

The machine I use in this manner has never ever greeted me with an unexpected addition courtesy of the Microsoft enshittification department.