That’s most likely more the reason than the virus itself.

I disagree. For me it was Win 7. And even in retrospective I’d say the last truly good and clean system was XP. I had to use it at work a month ago to troubleshoot a system and was surprised how well designed XP was for its time – and still is tbh

No, I was a windows fanboy. Just wanted to emphasise, that even someone as loyal as me got pushed away.

Then you’re lucky. Win11 virtually pushed me to Linux, I was a windows fanboy before.