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"Especially when they see what Win11 has become." Windows 11 works great. In fact, it works as well as Windows 10, Windows 7, etc. One thing I always find amusing is people are constantly claiming the latest version of windows is "bad", and the last version of Windows is soooo much better. This has been happening at least since Windows XP was released.

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Windows 11 has so much bloatware, ads, unwanted ai “features”, constant resetting of defaults, and forced use of an MS account that I reinstalled win10 a few months ago.

Very happy with my decision (as happy as one can be with Windows). I am missing absolutely nothing from the latest windows. I can’t say the general performance is much different between the two, but the rest of the complaints hold true

Tried moving the taskbar, getting it to show more than uninformative icons, or getting rid of all the fucking adverts and other hostility? Or anything else from this list, for that matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Wi...

This has been happening at least since Windows XP was released.

Because that's when Peak Windows was for a lot of people.

... but looking at your previous comments, it's clear what I'm arguing against.

It's generally a mix between the so-called "baby ducks" (people who fixate on the first OS they ever used), and Linux evangelists who announce every change to Windows as the surefire catalyst of the year of the Linux desktop.

I'm sorry but a dumbed down interface, built in ads and propaganda, and odious privacy destruction like Recall is order of magnitudes worse. Stop astroturfing.

Ok, maybe 11 has some features (like AI trash, privacy invading trash, Microsoft Edge hawking trash, et cetera). But if Microsoft is willing to pull the plug on the most popular OS in the world just four years after introducing Windows 11, it doesn't exactly build confidence in the long-term support for Windows 11, 12, 13, and so on.

> Windows 11 works great

Sorry, what? It's unstable, it's slow, how is that great?

> people are constantly claiming the latest version of windows is "bad"

Never heard that when Windows 7 or any other version older than Vista is the latest version of Windows tbh.

> as well as Windows 10, Windows 7,

Seeing Windows 7 at the same level as Windows 10 makes me question your sanity. /s

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