Don't get me wrong. I have Windows 11 and I like most of what they did there, especially with powertoys and similar initiatives. BUT. And that is a big "but":

Don't get me wrong. I have Windows 11 and I like most of what they did there, especially with powertoys and similar initiatives. BUT. And that is a big "but": the first thing that greeted me on the joy of my new computer was a screen trying to gaslight me into creating a microsoft account. There was no visible option to just use a local account and I had to google a bit in order to invoke a terminal in order to get a local account. I like windows for many things, including it's crazy good backward compatibility, especially when it comes to hardware. But shit like this makes it unreasonable to put a lot of trust into them for the long term. And before we have to discuss the specifics here: this is just one example out of many where they don't treat users at eye-level, but like marks that you need to trick into liking you. How about setting some positive incentives by showing me three really cool things that I couldn't do before if I use one of those microsoft accounts? Who knows, I might even make one. But Microsoft seems to have forgotten how to use anything but bullying, monopolism and gaslighting to convince people to use their product.