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Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit bordering on addiction
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Windows 11 IoT LTSC is the best answer at the moment. I've had no ads, no AI nonsense, the only setting I've had to change is to restore the sane position of the start menu. Oh also I did use the default options in Rufus which I think disables some annoyances. Despite all the moaning about it, Windows 11 itself is actually a small improvement on Windows 10 so I'm happy to upgrade.
Overall it's is a lot nicer than dealing with Linux's downsides (I have enough of that at work).
I'll stick with this until Microsoft forces my hand.
What downsides?
Hardware not working as well. Poor battery life. Worse game compatibility. Worse stability (yeah really). More bugs (yeah really; at this point Windows is quite a bit less buggy than Linux in my experience). More annoying to configure things / set things up usually.
Those are all only on average. Obviously there are times when Windows has bugs or sends you to the command line or fails to connect to WiFi or whatever... But by this point they're pretty rare.
I use Windows and Linux regularly and for Windows my complaints are:
For Linux:
There's definitely more that I've forgotten.
In fairness this is Linux running on a shitty Dell laptop vs Windows running on a normal desktop. Still...
Its completely reasonable to not like that and I wouldn't blame you for writing off Linux entirely