I still need windows for playing AAA games unfortunately. I am going back to cracking windows if they not allow to activate it with some cheap win7 key. They already spy on me, try to force me to use a fucking online account for a OS, that is insanity why should I feel the need to give them money? When I was young I just did not give a fuck and was poor, I never really had a "moral" thought about cracking my windows, it just what my friends and I always did. We saved the money for a better rig instead. But when I learned about the win7 key method for win10 so I bought myself one on ebay once.
But now that M$ has evolved into a digital bully I even feel good about it. They are not even offering a "get out of jail" option that cuts all the ads and spying for a extortion fee right? They want both my money and my data. They are not getting it! Well at least I hope so I used https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy to try to disable all the spying after installing with a local only account.
Valve is unfortunately still not all the way there with Proton. But I think there will be a day in my life where I will remove my Windows partition with great pleasure and only use Linux.
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.