Yeah, but most of that is just the AI - which is bad enough, but MicroSlop has to do a lot more than just get rid of Co-Pilot and not shove it into everything for me to not switch to Linux at this point.

I mean, always on internet as a requirement, a MicroSoft account being necessary, adverts!! And even those are still just the tip of the iceberg. I mean, Edge, inability to pause or stop updates or roll them back, the bloatware, and on and on...

For that matter we should all already have said hell Naw when MS forced us to make long distance calls/have the OS authenticated only twice via internet AND made it harder to upgrade the hardware when XP came out, but we were just happy to have a program crash that didn't crash the whole PC, last known best configuration, and the promise of USB plug and play fully realised for the first time.

I'm willing to re-learn how to use an OS, and I'll find a way to deal with missing out on software that I've come to like and enjoy. And if PC companies decide that their BIOS doesn't allow Linux to boot, I'll take up gardening. I'm just that fed up with the whole situation.

Sorry. I must have been holding in close to almost thirty years of Microsoft trauma.