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Windows 11 is indeed a trash spyware fest with forced installs of shit you don't want.
Ask all the Active Domain managers how 11 is treating them? They'll tell you it is hot fucking garbage that pushes ads and installs even at the corporate level. They have to jump through so many hoops to disable all that shit or do something as simple as make a local account.
Running Win 11 on my Huawei D15. Can confirm.
10 is not better though. Everything that came after 7 was bullshit tbh.
Actually, it's really shocking to say with how egregious a lot of the stuff in 10 is, but 11 really is actually worse somehow.
To my knowledge, you can still make a local account in 10 even though you're discouraged from it. In 11, you can't, and you literally have to do some PowerShell wizardry on install to make a local account (This matters to large corps because they don't want every employee on an MS account, there's still a lot of legit security reasons for locally controlled accounts). Then, even after you've already jumped through hoops to make a local account because the installer tells you that you can only log in with a Microsoft account, then the installed operating system has the sheer audacity to advertise at you "Why don't you try using a Microsoft account? It's a better and more secure than a local account!" Like fuck me that's some anti-consumer shit.
Oh yes that really is the worst. I actually just did that powershell wizardry for my GF setting up a new laptop. But I also recall having to unplug ethernet when installing 10 (a later version of it!) in order to get the option to have a local account. Also windows (that I only have use for very specific work) often prompts me to "finish setting up my computer", meaning logging in. Not gonna happen.
Oh and in 11 they also managed to effectively destroy efficient workflow. I had to buy a dubious thirdparty software to make the UI usable again ("StartAllBack").