I've been a Windows user from Win98 until Win10, until I finally migrated to Linux and had to use mac for some time as well. The good, bad and ugly of windows:

I've been a Windows user from Win98 until Win10, until I finally migrated to Linux and had to use mac for some time as well. The good, bad and ugly of windows: The good: - It works out of box in many more cases than Linux. Mac is, of course, better, but only because it only works on strictly controlled hardware. Linux is much harder to setup on a random hardware, especially if it's new (I'm having real trouble with my Fedora on Amd Zen4 7950x and Nvidia Rtx 4090 right now). - Many games only work on windows. This is changing, fortunately, but for the moment Windows is the only platform to play many titles. The bad: Using windows is becoming harder and harder in each release. What was nicely organized in a control panel is now a maze of many windows. When you click an option, you are usually taken to a window with very few options. If you need something else, there is no clear way to know where to go. You might click a link and a legacy control panel item shows up. Or this window might navigate somewhere else. You cannot have multiple instances of settings window open. If I'm experimenting with something and I need to make a change to sound settings, I need to start over and find that page. I can go on and on, but using Windows 11 is many ties more complex than 7. It seems they want to mimic Mac, but what they forget is that their users are those who did not choose Mac for one reason or another. Becoming a less interesting copy of Apple has failed MS times and times (RIP Windows Phone), but they keep insisting on it. Give me any Linux desktop, or mac, or a phone, and ask to make a change to a setting. It's much faster than doing the same on Windows 11, even if you've been an experienced Win 10 user. The ugly: Windows is hostile to its users. It installs many apps that I cannot uninstall some. Forces me to use a Microsoft account. I want my machine to be predictable and transparent, it is not: I don't know what my online account is sharing with MS. I don't know how to turn things off. Even things such a preventing a web search in start menu requires going to regedit (or gpedit). You don't feel that you are paying a company to serve you. This would be good for a free OS. But one that costs multiple hundreds? No, I should trust you, I can't. So on my new machine I tried Win 11, but I'm not convinced to buy it (cost is not a problem after spending 5k+ on hardware).