I’d been using Windows forever and always stuck to the “rule of two”: I skipped Vista and Windows 8, and was holding out to see if a Windows 12 was going to happen. When it didn’t, I jumped ship to Linux. 11 took everything I hated about 10 and made it all worse, and that’s without even considering all the telemetry. I’d already started using open source software, so that only made it easier to switch.

And for the record, my hardware was plenty new enough to install 11. But boy is it zippier with Linux! Just goes to show how much bloat Windows has. I have to use 11 on my work machine and I hate every minute of it.