how is it not yet a code red inside Microsoft, for the astonishing decline of user experience of Windows 11?
1. Microsoft doesn't make their money from Windows anymore. They make their money from services, like Azure and whatever they are calling their web-based Office this week. Windows is now mostly a telemetry-collection system for them, not a product.
2. People who hate Windows don't have a choice. Regular people are issued a PC and its OS from their employer, and can't change it. Consumers who buy low-end laptops for school or hobbies aren't going to pay twice as much for a Mac. And outside of HN, a vanishingly small number of people are even aware of Linux or other FOSS alternatives, much less have the ability to install and use it.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/microsoft-kills-wind...
I never seen them in Portuguese schools, where the expectation is still families get to buy computers and most classes are offline as always.
I'm hoping now that Microsoft seems like they might get serious about kicking people out of the kernel after the cloudstrike incident, kernel level anticheat may go away which will pave the way for Linux to completely take over.
I used to be a big windows fan but now I can barely even use my pc half the time SYSTEM is just churning disk reads/writes making everything slow or edge is secretly running in the background even though Ive closed it five times. The few games with anti-cheat are killing me right now as I'm fully linux on laptop/servers