Take Windows 10 or 11 through a time machine and show it to someone in the 90s or 00s and it would be considered adware and/or malware and/or spyware. It takes

Take Windows 10 or 11 through a time machine and show it to someone in the 90s or 00s and it would be considered adware and/or malware and/or spyware. It takes every opportunity to shove ads in the user's face. It takes days of configuration to make it usable, and an update at any time can undo your efforts as shown by other comments in this thread. Unless you complete a metaphorical Ninja Warrior course every little bit of your data will be sent to Microsoft, and even if you do everything right there still are telemetry that you can't disable. The UI is often laggy and unresponsive compared to eg. Manjaro XFCE. Linux may have issues at times but at least they're not caused by malice. An OS should get out of my way and let me do what I need / want to do, not do everything it can to intentionally and maliciously get in my way to make a few cents of adverts. Modern Windows is parasitic.