Having never lived in a Windows world I had no idea what life was like on the other side.
So many times on HN I read about how MacOS is bad for the user, locked down, rubbish etc etc.
But if this article is true then Windows 11 is absolutely insane. That is what anti consumer looks like. Not SIP. Not poor documentation. Not first party apps.
While those of us who use Apple’s OS fear for the worst, those in Windows appear to be receiving it.
(But I definitely agree that news apps have no place on a desktop and I have had very bad news headlines pop up on my kids screens. Please Apple, turn this stupid default off, or give us an option at install time).
The general advice I got was to start with a debloating program [0], especially for people new to the platform.
My take is, Windows 11's lows are really low. Having to debloat is one thing, the overall mild bugginess is another (everything kinda only works 99% of the time, that 1% of FU doesn't seem to disappear). Then the arcane science of digging through old layers to resurect past UIs that are still more powerful than the newer ones.
On the other side the highs are way way higher. People stick with all the crap because that's the only path to where they want to go.