i've used every version of windows except 8 as an actually desktop since 3.11. people have complained about every new windows version since millennium, but they've all been fairly configurable and accessible (even 10, after some years of concessions from microsoft) without too much hacking. i tried windows 11 with the same level of skepticism i've exercised when trying other new windows versions. most people who complain about windows are just annoying whiny faggots who either don't know what they're talking about and are just saying things, or are pedantic technodorks crying about trivial bullshit that doesn't matter in a desktop os.

windows 11 is the worst operating system released in the history of computers. it's slow, it is full of stupid bullshit that sucks, and it gets in the way of everything the user wants to do. people are switching to linux because microsoft is in the final stages of wringing out value from the remainders of its users. windows 11 feels gross to use.

i've been using linux as a desktop for gaming since like 2021 or early 2022 (a few months after windows 11 was released), and bought a macbook a week ago for recording music and stuff. i used windows as my desktop/music recording/media os for like 35 years. windows 11 is insultingly, soul-suckingly bad.