Reading through this thread as an user of Windows from the EU most of the issues I see mentioned here are just non-existent, like OneDrive nagging that has never happened to me
You have just been lucky. Nothing more.
A classic case of it doesn't happen on _my computer_ so it must be a lie.
The only issue that is still here would be bing in start search but that's trivial to disable compared to the configurations I had to do on my linux desktops, so while it is bad and shouldn't be a thing I don't see it as a big issue when comparing to linux.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2024/03/07/microsoft-dm...