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It is only frustrating for folks used to a different os.
FWIW, I used it as a daily driver for many years. And that was back in the days when things weren't as easy.
Unfortunately, to run the stuff I need to run, I'm pretty much stuck with Windows and WSL. (But with Linux on my old laptop.)
I'm probably not the audience that needs convincing, though.
So, "give those to poor kids", and use your proprietary software in the OS you are allowed to use. Not seeing the issue.
The OS they are able to use is Windows 10. They likely don't meet the TPM requirements to update to Windows 11(as if you'd wanna use it anyways); so when W10 goes EoL, they will be SoL(shit out of luck) on getting future security patches. Which is y'know, bad, especially on the machine you do actual work on.