@slash Windows 11 is not THAT bad. When I read about it and looked at the screenshots I hated it. But I gave it a try by installing the ARM edition on my old Lumia phone. Having desktop OS on a phone IS sick and twisted 😂 But it's hooked up to a TV, keyboard and mouse so it's almost a normal computer.
Thing is, it's not worse than any other Windows, I liked tiles more, but the new Start menu is okay, new window management features in the vein of tiling WMs are cool and the rest is just bearable.
@slash Yup! I did have to take a lot of cruft out of Win11. Telemetry aside, I also don't like this "new" Chromium-based Edge and WebView2, I use Firefox so I don't need it at all. Good thing all of this can be done using OS tools alone: either Remove-AppxPackage in Powershell or WinGet — new thing, something like a package manager for third-party software. Widgets no longer work, I don't need them anyway — everything else works as expected. Even better without it 😄
@m0xee I am serious about privacy, so I feel the same way about 11 as I did about 10 and its extreme telemetry. If I need win for something at this point it’s either massage the behavior out of windows 7 or I find a way to do without.