I for one am extremely grateful for Windows 11 Pro - as a longtime user of Windows for gaming, I couldn't wait to get off Windows at any possible cost. The nagging and repeated reverting of settings and forced defaults and increased telemetry (perhaps inspired by Papa Google) were too much for me. Not to mention I really tried to stay on Windows 10 and they didn't let me.

Thank you, Microsoft, for pushing me into Fedora Workstation, which works mostly flawlessly, and whose updates excite me. Updates on Microsoft were always an Oh Man, let's cross our fingers, type situation. MacOS updates are increasingly a groaning trepidation - what new UI experiments are they going to throw at me. With Fedora, innovation comes with every update and where something annoys me (like the minimalist KDE UI that hides window drop down menus and whatnot) I can just download someone's override or plugin to customize it the way I want.

Windows 11 was an attempt to turn the hardware we own into hardware owned by Microsoft. I should say pwn3d.