its not that i hate windows. it’s just a frustrating OS. ive used it all my life until now, and honestly the amount of “you sure you wanna execute this” or “no u can’t do this because we said so” and telemetrizing the entire OS and forcing you to make a microsoft account, and locking stuff behind paywalls… i get it’s a business model, but from a UX perspective, that doesn’t last long - and that is for good reason. people are gonna have enough of it at some point.
let me try being clearer here - say, you’re tired of the light mode. you wanna switch, only to realize you need a license key. now, let’s see all you’ve done:
bought the device
agreed to a terms of use and privacy policy
you already bought the device, now you’re being made to pay extra. not only that, the OS is filled to the brim with unnecessary bloatware that downs the general performance and etcetera.
if you remove all that (which is hardly doable, as some things are integrated into the entire OS itself (Microsoft Edge, I’m looking at you)), I could say it’s a pretty damn good OS and I wouldn’t be switching, but that’s a hard say when that’s not the other issue.
every major windows version so far has been a reskin of windows 7, which admittably is the best version there ever was. nothing new, just a fresh coat of paint and more security updates.
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