I haven't been using windows since win 10 and I was shocked at the garbage I had to go through when I installed win 11 in a vm. Forced online account creation,

I haven't been using windows since win 10 and I was shocked at the garbage I had to go through when I installed win 11 in a vm. Forced online account creation, page after page asking to enable data, ad preferences for what normally costs a lot of money, all of this seems crazy when I compare it with a recent Linux install which had zero things I had to agree to. The windows ULAs are so long you can't even read them if you wanted to. At least I only paid USD 3 for the license because anything more than that IMO is insane at this point.