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At the risk of being unpopular, I think a lot of what people perceive as unintuitive or worse in terms of settings and OS features is just change. I'm on Enterprise Windows 11 at work and I wouldn't willingly go back to Windows 10.
I think because it's Enterprise I'm dodging a lot of the worst of it - ads, telemetry, surprise updates, etc - but the unified settings are better once you learn them, tabbed File Explorer is better, dark mode switching is way better - there's plenty to like.
I want to see the rise of the Linux desktop as much as anyone, but implying Windows 11 is all bad isn't that fair an assessment.
Change is a big part of it certainly but the fact that Windows is coming dangerously close to only functioning online to serve you as many ads as possible and to extract more and more of your personal data to sell all the while owning a once not for profit AI company gives such megacorp vibes.
I'm really not going to be happy about being forced to switch because a high end pc built years ago is suddenly "outdated".
By no means is it Ultra 4K HD compatible but it can still run anything AAA just fine. There's no excuse for what Microsoft is doing in my eyes.