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I used windows since 3.1 up till 11. It’s dogshit after windows 7 even when I use cmd scripts to limit telemetry and customize it because MS with their infinite wisdom decided to revert my customizations to their default dogshit.
Linux is not perfect at all but Id rather dealing with linux issues over greedy executive decisions to cause issues intentionally.
With Linux systems we never(?) have to deal with defaults decided by the profit motive. The computer might not instantly do everything I want but I don't have to fight a multinational corporation as part of the solution. That's what swung it permanently for me. I'm not in corporate IT but as a fixer of hundreds of people's personal computers over decades, Windows is horrific and nowadays I have started just refusing to become responsible for trying to sort it out, even for pay.
Lol
Not only were there several dogshit windows versions before 7, 8 was an upgrade in almost every way other than "omg start menu big now" culture shock. The new task manager alone was worth having a slightly bigger start menu.
I still use ME. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You poor thing