I've just fired up win11 for the first time in months . It feels so slow compared to the Kubuntu I normally use on the same machine. I just wanted to print a booklet usng acrobat ,but it had just started an update . after many many minutes , I was able to open acrobat only to be faced with pop-ups for AI slop and automated crap. It's unuseable!
I rebooted to linux.
Yes, Win11 is about everything that Windows should not be. Youtubers who show how to strip out the AI crap and other bloat, to make it more usable, get strikes to their channels.
These are strange times; large companies like Microsoft - they seem to be doing their best to force-feed features that are restrictive and whatnot, perhaps to show that they still have final say, of what the consumers 'want'.
Such a powerful entity - one doesn't have to be a fortune-teller to see that it continues using same tactics over and over. By blindly doing that, it has managed to create resistance against itself.
That's probably the most positive thing it has successfully achieved.
For Windows users looking for alternatives, be it downgrading to Win10 to support their not so latest hardware, which Win11 makes obsolete anyway - or looking out to test Linux - it's such a jungle out there.
What comes to Linux, there isn't such thing as "best Linux distro for new users", as many Linux users seem to presume. If this or that distro works for them, that's fine, but why assume that new users see it like they do.
Besides that, there are Linux users (some pretty advanced), who have made tutorials in more understandable, plain language. I wish I could put out some examples with links, but it's so vast subject to cover every aspect.
