and I can't say that it's been an enjoyable experience. It's been a passable experience; I can still accomplish the basic tasks that I set out to do, albeit clumsily.
The complaints that I've heard are, I would say, typical of my own experience as well: the PC is no longer mine, whether it be from subtle, repeated hints to partake in Microsoft-only services that lends a sense of constantly being followed by a quiet system tray salesperson whose footsteps of Office 365 subscriptions and OneDrive storage expansions nonetheless remind you of their presence, to a chaotic organisational scheme that seems to rely almost entirely on the PC-to-Web blurring of searching if one wants to use anything other than whatever is lucky enough to land in the "Recommended" apps grid, and that fills me with suspicion as to what telemetry might be relaying back to Microsoft servers every time I have to type in "Gimp" to start my artistic day.
Likely if I read up a bit more about it, I could probably organise this chaos. After all, no UI/UX is 100% intuitive, and training is always needed to help a user take full advantage of a system, but after being spoiled over literally decades from the absurd levels of customisation that *nix systems allow, the idea of trying to customise Windows tires me to think about, especially when I know the sidewalk of personalisation ends abruptly not even part of the way around one side of the UI block.
As for privacy concerns, what exactly is meaningful privacy protection in this instance? What meaning is there in demanding respect of privacy from one's OS when one drives out onto the Information Superhighway in an easily identifiable digital car? What kind of digital life is it to be cognizant of data predators spanning from the box of lights 'neath one's desk, to the far reaches of the world? How glorious is it to live a life of eternal information security warfare?
Okay, I'm getting way too poetic over Windows-fucking-11. Windows 11 sucks, okay? Microsoft can go huff some burning hair.
