It’s fucking bloated - 50-55% of codebase is legacy code that has been added before decades ago and left unchanged since then. 30-35% code is bloatware, ads, spyware telemetry and AI non-sense. Only 10-12% is actual code for OS
Ads everywhere - In start menu, in taskbar, in login screen, in file explorer. Basicly everywhere! Pushing you intrusive ads to buy crap you don’t needed.
Doesn’t give a shit about privacy - Seeding 1000+ trackers on your system. Tracking every your move such as which apps you used, basicly EVERYTHING! And disabling in so hard, You have literally damage your system stability because it baked into system files!
AI non-sense - More spyware, ads and crapwarw with AI. Windows Recall going to screenlog you now! Copilot going to show you more ads! And more system usage and storage size thanks to AI bloatware
It’s so slowwwww - Ads, spyware and bloatware will ensure that you’ll have the slowest and laggy as much as possible!
Wants to kill old hardware - System requirements are fucking insane and bloatware increases system usage for no reason.
UI sucks - Old UI from Windows XP and UWP really sucks and bullcrap. Can’t even customize UI unless you change few registery for tiny UI change.
Cares only their shareholders, not users - These shareholders pour billions to M$ and M$ listens them to statisfty them. And extra money from enshittified experince on Windows.
Doesn’t know what is freedom - Read Windows’ TOS. It says that by buying our shit you only get license to use it. It means Windows owned by Micro$oft and can whenever they want whenever you like or not
There’s hundreds of reason. But just know WIndows is a dog shit and deserves to be flushed into skibidi toilet.
IT’S TIME TO SWITCH TO LINUX!!!
That is all
I cannot relate to most of your points. I’ve never seen the ads you describe. UI made a huge leap forward after they neglected it for decades, so it almost caught up to the usual Linux DEs (as they were some years ago). System performance is not worse than on my several Linux systems.
I just don’t see the point in switching to Linux now, if you haven’t already done years ago.
If you don’t see the point, then Microsoft has successfully boiled the frog.
Probably. But maybe it is my habit of unshitifying every OS I install. I always decline telemetry, ads and suspecious features since Win10 rolled out. Same on my android phones. Use adblock since I cannot stand seeing ad banners without freaking out.
My point is: Microsoft and Google always offer opting-out. Users are responsible for accepting or declining services like telemetry. If you still cry about this crap: FIX YOUR CONFIG.
The opt outs don’t work. Even if you opted out of the telemetry that only disabled some of it, not all of it, and MS constantly re-enables it with updates. I can’t count how many times I’ve had to uninstall OneDrive, But. It. Keeps. Coming. Back. Windows 10 you could previously disable most of the worst crapware that MS shoveled in. Windows 11 you can’t disable it, they just don’t give you the opt outs anymore. It’s all mandatory. Even worse, they started backporting that stuff into Windows 10 as well. Did you notice when MS silently installed copilot on your Windows 10 system?
Ultimately though, I just don’t want to keep fighting a losing battle against a company I despise. I’m done giving my money to them. It would be one thing if they provided a good service that I enjoyed like Valve does with Steam, but the last time I actually liked a version of Windows was when XP was released. It’s basically been downhill since then. If there was a decent alternative to Android I’d switch that as well, but unfortunately Linux phone just isn’t ready for prime time yet. But thanks to the amazing work by Valve, for gaming systems, Linux is finally a viable alternative.
You know what I do after installing my OS? I just use it as is. The defaults are already set to my liking. I haven’t been able to do that with Windows since 2001.