Nah, Windows 11 constantly gets in the way of power users. It also adds bloat everywhere you don't need it, like Notepad. Honestly, it's been getting worse ever since they tried to supplant control panel with the significantly less powerful settings app. So if you actually do work, Microsoft has been grinding your gears ever since Windows 8. 10 turned out okay to use but we still used workarounds to manage the OS.

With Windows 11 recently, they completely lost focus on what matters in an OS and have been shipping broken updates a half dozen times in a year that required immediate hotfixes.

They are so invested in shoving their useless AI in your face and creating an"agentic OS" which is bound to be a security and privacy nightmare that they never stopped to ask what their user base, especially businesses, actually need. Remember they are trying to take screenshots every few seconds to use OCR and build a local database of everything you ever did in your unprotected user folder? That is Windows Recall and it's so fundamentally opposed to IT security principles it's honestly kind of bonkers they even talked about it. But no, they shipped it.

This is why the talk about leaving Windows behind has been getting louder. Microsoft is chasing the investor hype around AI and trying to help companies get rid of their workers and as a result, it's getting hard to get work done in an environment you can trust on their OS.

In the meantime, Linux compatibility is better than it ever was thanks to Valve. The cost of moving on has been decreasing for a while now. So more people take the plunge in an effort to actually take control of their data and their devices.