If you want to use Windows outside of an air gapped environment, it’s reckless to use anything less than Windows 10, and even for that you have only about a yea

If you want to use Windows outside of an air gapped environment, it’s reckless to use anything less than Windows 10, and even for that you have only about a year left unless you pay for extended support. Also, as someone who actually uses Windows 11 Professional all day, every working day, I honestly haven’t encountered these adverts everyone is always referring to (maybe it’s because I’m not in the US). As for the UI, initial release didn’t allow ungrouping of Windows on taskbar and context menus hid most things behind an extra click. This was crap, but a major update a while back has resolved these. I’ve tried Linux, I occasionally need to use it or macOS for development of our cross platform Electron based product, and I would still choose Windows as it really has consistently “just worked” for me since around Windows 2000. But if macOS or Linux works well for you, I’m happy you’re happy and perhaps you in turn could be happy for people who are happy with Windows (and ideally without thinking they must be deluded or something).