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I wish Microsoft kept Windows as a paid product, instead of making it effectively free (with things like free upgrades from older versions) and sticking ads all over the place.

Linux police officers come into your house, and they take your membership!

In Soviet Russia, Arch BTW use you!

Microsoft even copied KDE's motto "Simple by default, powerful when needed" in their Windows 11 announcement.

Windows is not “fine” aside from all the non-UI stuff, they’re UI is annoying and slow to me, they moved things behind extra clicks/commands to make it “clean”- stuff I actually use.

And then there’s the whole tracking usage to drop adds in your notification thing… which is a privacy nightmare.

I got a goddamn pop-up ad for an XBox controller. That really says all you need to know. When there are advertisements in the operating system, the operating system is fired.

Eh, you only notice it when it's bad, most of the time for most users it's okay, though I generally argue they just make an unconscious decision to ignore most issues, even before trying out Linux I was flabbergasted at how people literally lose time and get flustered at a problem but then refuse to accept it as such.

Tbh, I thought Windows was fine too, until I had to use it last summer.

Is most of the UI fine? Yes, absolutely. It's just the rest of the OS that sucks.

Depends. what version of Windows? 10? I can agree for the most part that yeah, it's fine. Most users loved 7, I...never paid it much mind (mostly because it was good, i guess? Got nothing bad to say about it, at least) and 8 was...Windows 8.

Windows 11 tho? Eh....the UI's ok. I like it better than 10's, at least. Ish. But whose bright idea was it to limit the number of items in the context menu? Or to hide the ribbon that, again, shows you more options? Or basically force ya to make a Microsoft account to even use the thing? (there's apparantly a way to revert some of these things via messing with the Registry) Like, Windows 10 was fine like you said, dunno why 11 needed such drastic changes. And that's without mentioning ads or the habit Windows has of reverting some of the setting you set after an update (tho that was a thing since 10, tbf. Still annoying)

Eh, it's okay for most people, I guess. I am just not comfortable being the product. I want to be in control of the things I own.

There is no shortage of different programs that can neuter Windows telemetry and ads but they're always finding new ways to fuck your shit up and I'm done playing the game.

And you can do that with kde.

Next makeover is in February with Plasma 6.

He though that new widget with all the advertisements was really nice, and was on the way to thank whoever cleaned his system removing 3/4 of the items on the start menu.