I too like Windows and use it as my daily OS everywhere, but I am firmly against ever upgrading to Windows 11 and, with each update, Windows 10 gets more unplea

I too like Windows and use it as my daily OS everywhere, but I am firmly against ever upgrading to Windows 11 and, with each update, Windows 10 gets more unpleasantly like 11. Recently I tried to open an image, and the Windows Store asked me to pay 99 cents for the codec. Actually, for a video codec pack - it showed me as already having the codec pack for exactly these images installed. But they wouldn't open, only the Windows Store appeared asking me to pay 99 cents. Adding insult to injury, it seems that anyone who did this earlier than a couple of years ago got the pack for free - I was only asked to pay for it because I hadn't secured my rights at the time, apparently. Even though the Windows store verly clearly indicates that I already had the image codec installed. [even more fun, the Windows store had additional prominent listings for what appeared to be these codecs, for free, but were very transparently third party spyware and not really the codecs at all.] Windows 11 vs 10 feels in many ways analogous to me to Windows ME vs Windows 2000, at least in terms of user-hostility.