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So, forced Bitlocker, forced obsolescence of otherwise still viable hardware, forced online accounts, and having Copilot/Recall shoved down your throat for the versions of that OS that a normal consumer can legally and readily obtain, make Win11 the best PC OS?
I mean, sure, you can get LTSC and Win11 even has an LTSC version, but unless you're a large corporation, there's no legal way for you to get it, the only legal versions a normal consumer can get are Home or Pro as those are readily available on the retail circuit, and if you bought an OEM prebuilt from any big box store, one can just download the normal Win11 ISO from MS and it should auto-activate to whatever version that system came preinstalled with, which is typically Home, and those are the versions that treat their users like hot trash, Home especially.
Forced security, oh no.....Forced obsolescence? No hardware is being made obsolete, it will keep working just fine. Forced online accounts that are only needed once for login a single time? Oh no, the horror. Not to mention that the "forced online account" saves your bitlocker encryption key on it, so you can recover your data if your hardware gets destroyed. Copilot and Recall aren't the same thing. They are OS features that you can turn off if you want. Some people actually like them too!
Those aren't the things that make Win11 the best PC OS, they're just things that you don't like that you think make it bad - but you're overlooking everything that make it good.
More like MS enabling Bitlocker and causing data loss without the user knowing about it, something that's been pissing a lot of people off lately, and forced obsolescence refers to Win11 blocking everything prior to Zen+ and Coffee Lake, compounded with Win10 going EOL soon, which has at least the intended effect of making people buy a new PC even if their old PC is still good otherwise, and not all people are comfortable with having to sign up for an online account just to install their OS and would rather make a local account if possible; MS recently axed the workaround which enabled that for the consumer versions of Windows.
Also, I didn't know local backups of your data ala simply copying it to an external drive at the minimum, weren't an option that existed anymore. ~~sarcasm~~
If you've signed in to a MS account you have your bitlocker encryption key and won't lose any data.
Because Win11 uses features that that hardware doesn't have. Win10 is still there and still works. You can't stop progress forever.
Sure, but most are fine with it especially with the benefits it brings. For older people it's an absolute godsend, as all their files are automatically backed up to onedrive and accessible on any computer.
What are you talking about?