They figured if they make Win 10 just as bad as Win 11 people will finally switch over.

Obligatory Linux plug.

Microsoft wants everyone to suffer. Even the smarter windows users.

Linux is free btw

Every day that passes, I feel more validated in my decision to no longer use their OS.

God damnit. I have a W10 drive left because SteamVR is still a little clunky on Debian.

I really hope valve comes out with a new release of SteamOS for desktops, the Steam Deck version is damned near flawless.

Thank you kindley Microsoft, It is what I crave! I need it like the Microplastics I got installed in my ballsack.

I think the various debloat scripts (Chris Titus etc.) should take care of this.

Obviously this remedy is just harm reduction.

Going forward I will be maining various Linux distros and using Wine/Proton compatibility, or TinyWin10 on a VM, for any tasks that absolutely require Windows.

Linux looks more and more like the better choice. Some more reasons here despite the ad annoyance: https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-linux-good-gaming/

May I interest you with Ameliorated?

Geez, MS, it's a place to filter a list with a few keystrokes and/or click a link or punch enter. It's such shit ad real estate you're just pissing off people about to discover nobara or this for nothing

At least I could install Windows 10 in QEMU. I think I'll go back to Win7 for VMs then.

And i just switched my last windows 10 machine to linux 🫡🖕