Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

I've used Linux and Windows for more than a decade each. I know about desktop Linux' shortcomings and I was using Windows 10 in the last few years because it worked better than Linux for me. There is just too much stuff going on and performance suffers (especially when dealing with Docker for Windows). It also feels that I'm a guinea pig for PMs at Microsoft to experiment on new revenue generating features, but my operating system is not a place where I would want them. It hurts my focus.

Windows 11 finally sent me back to Linux. Despite a few bugs and annoyances here and there, I'm doing my work on Linux more productively than I was on Windows 11. Time to move on for me.

In the end, it feels like I'm not an important customer to Microsoft anymore (as a "power user"). It feels that their target audience are clueless grandmas that can be easily scammed into their products. I don't want this to sound aggressive. It really does feel that way.

"kind of shit" - in what way? I'm dying to hear an intelligent complaint come from somebody because so far everything I'm reading (for Windows 10 at least) are mob mentality pitch-forky type of comments. You can read my comment on it to another post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946821

Why would you pay for this? Why would you even associate with a company who will not even sell you, a private individual, an option that does not include this?

What about using Linux on the desktop is "difficult" enough to justify paying money to Microsoft for voluntary software servitude?

* They will not tell you what data they collect about you

* They will not allow you to disable data collection

* They will not permit you to define the default browser you use

* They will not permit you to avoid advertisements disguised as valid system alerts

* They will delete your privacy settings without notification

* They will lock down your hardware so you physically can't install or modify the software

I think it's all about "intent" in summary.

After long enough it gets tiring battling people who's intent is ultimately maximum wealth extraction, rather than simply producing a good piece of software.

The intent behind most FOSS projects is just about the software, and sometimes we disagree on what and how (but that's why we have choices)... and some things are a bit creaky and come from different ages and don't fit perfectly together, but with a bit of fiddling and understanding you can gradually accumulate things that do what you want - and so it becomes more comfortable over time, not less, because they don't try to betray you at every turn.

Chrome as an example? They had an advert on top of the most successful search engine. Hardly a grassroots effort.

People won't bother with Linux, nor other alternative systems. Many don't even change the desktop wallpaper. The computer works out of the box, as it comes, and that's the end of the customization story. In order to achieve Linux majority, it needs to become the de facto standard: governments need to use it, schools need to teach it, and businesses need to use it. And it needs to come on computers preinstalled, compatible with all these other systems. Otherwise, no dice. The question is not technological - Linux has been fine for a long time now. It has been down to business, and Microsoft is good at business. That's it.