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I wonder if there are any Linux distros that include ads built into their core apps and menus. Windows does. But hey, we can disable them with some obscure combination of powershell commands and registry edits... temporarily. Should we really have to put up with that kind of crapware in software that we've paid for?
You're kidding yourself if you think Windows hasn't gotten worse in this regard. And Microsoft is carefully probing exactly how much their users will tolerate - because more ads mean more money. Annoying users is only an issue if the users actually leave. So this gentle gradual slide of enshitification is very deliberate and calibrated. People are pushed to the very edge of what they'll tolerate. If you continue to tolerate it, you'll likely be pushed a little bit further soon enough.
I agree its a load of garbage. But that wasn't the point of my statement vs. the directly quoted protion of the article i was referencing and reaponding to. The article list those issues as defaco issues, which they are solveable as i stated and was pointing out. Which occur in other OSs. Not to the extent of the garbage of windows 11.
Nothing i stated is untrue. You took the meaning and spun the context of my statement and spun it into me defending microsoft and windows11. Which i never did once.
I didn't intend to misrepresent what you were saying. I really did take your post as defending Microsoft by minimising the faults.
The list of issues was never meant to be an exhaustive list. They were just examples. You talked about how those examples can be worked around, and I took that to mean you didn't acknowledge the core problem - so I gave a different example and tried to express the point that although work-arounds might exist, we just shouldn't have to deal with that.
In any case, maybe we misunderstood each other. No big deal. Lets just leave it as that.