OP is wearing rose colored glasses, yes 10 was better but 10 was a turd in a blanket but you could do workarounds to keep that turd covered, 11 just took the blanket away and exposed the turd .. . all the time.

Like Trump accelerating the transition to renewables and e vehicles across the world with his bumbling incompetence, MS is hastening the transition to Linux from theres, i was there from MS DOS days until early 10.

They really just need to use the Linux Kernel and do their own "Windows" skin on top, like Tuxedo etal

i gave up and have been on Linux Mint then LMDE for 4 years now, fucking hell, all i want to do is click the icon on the toolbar and use the app i selected. My gf uses 11 on her laptop.

Use Windows 11 at work. Was using 10 at home. Seeing what my future looked like if I went to 10, I installed CachyOS instead. After 4 months of CachyOS, I'm not going back to Windows even if you pay me.

Windows 3.11 or bust.

You can pry my Workgroups from my cold, dead, hands.

Windows 2000 was the absolute best windows hands down.

But now it's cachyos for me going forward. Never again will I install windows.

Leave windows, embrace linux

Lame. Should have gone back to Windows 7.

I dont miss windows at all.

Windows 10 was never good, it just looks good compared to the radioactive slag heap that is Windows 11.

Going back to Windows 10 feels like removing ankle weights you forgot you were wearing.

Windows 10 was fine until they started trying to patch all the ways to avoid using a Microsoft account. Windows 11 is horrendously worse.

My work laptop, a Surface Laptop 7th gen, runs Windows 11. Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt. Fucking how.

Of course opening the context menu takes its time. It's gotta load a whole Electron framework first.

Ah don’t worry, leave it running for an hour and they’ll inject copilot and all the crap you’ve come to loathe.

Linux users:

Win10 is when telemetry was implemented for the first time. You'd better be off with win8.1 with some custom start menu adjustments or straight back to a heaven of Win7.

Or, inhales deeply, just install Linux and do not bother with MS crap cause Linux just works and there is some sort of a distro for pretty much anyone's taste and preferences that will serve them as good or even better than win10/11/8.1/7.

Windows 7 was the peak.

This is not 'things were better when you were fifteen.' I started on Apple fucking II. I remember Windows 95 being new and fancy, and even that 90 MHz 16 MB ass DOS extension of an operating system had better UI and better UX than Windows 10 or 11. 98 was an improvement, NT was a tradeoff, ME was a mistake, XP was a lurching step forward, service packs can burn in hell, Vista doubly so. Windows 7 was the last time the good-bad-good-bad cycle actually worked out. 8 was bad, trying to be a touchscreen OS, and then 8.1 was a band-aid instead of a real fix, and everything since WIndows 10 has been a deliberate disaster. 'We're gonna screenshot your desktop every few seconds because--' Die.

Penguin noises intensifies

8.1 ftw, 8 was awful and so 8.1 names got dragged through the mud but it launches stuff and loads stuff faster, plus it has better battery life. There's a video out there that shows most the windows OSs doing stuff side by side and it consistently sweepes them.

This is a frustration of mine with software. We make all these gains with hardware just to occupy the new capacity with cruft. I just want the same interface from Y2K that runs so fucking fast my eyes can’t keep up with my fingers.

Switched to using Linux like 6 years ago. Wouldn't know how bad Windows 11 is but I can only imagine.

I'm in awe of how Microsoft somehow manages to make an OS somehow more dogshit than the last one.