I think I'll run my gaming computer on its own isolated network and do a reinstall of Win10 every month or so rather than install Win11 (or pay MS for patches lol; like wtf, I might pirate those just out of principal). Win11 is genuinely that bad of an OS from my limited experience with it.
Not that Win10 is drastically better, but at least you can turn off most of the dumb Win10 things that Win11 will absolutely force down your throat, given half a chance.
I just upgraded to Windows 10 LTSC last year and spent months decrapifying it and customizing it to my liking.
No way I'm upgrading to Windows 11 soon...or probably ever. All of my other machines are Linux, and the only reason this one is Windows is for Photoshop and desktop Excel, neither one of which I am attached to, as Open Source alternatives are getting better and better.
Microsoft's contempt for their users is legendary.
When I click on the link, I get a full screen cookies prompt, with no "reject" button. The prompt doesn't even really tell me I can reject - I have to press "manage settings", and there I can click "reject", which no doubt still subscribes me to 874 legitimate interest data thriving "Internet research" nonsense
I'll take their contempt for full-screen misleading Windows ads with a pinch of salt.