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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Windows 11 is basically Windows 10 with a slightly nicer (in most respects) desktop. There aren't a lot of compelling reasons to switch if what you have works well enough.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Windows 11 is also much better at collecting personal data with improved analytics and Microsoft spyware running under the hood. Not to mention it's superiority at serving advertisements and embedding them in nearly every aspect of the UI.

It's doubtful that Microsoft shareholders have meetings about how to improve the user experience of their OS. I think they are more concerned with extracting every penny they can designing the most efficient backend to harvest data and push ads, kinda like our friends at Alphabet, Microsoft is trying so desperately to emulate.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have not seen a single ad ....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same... people say there are start menu ads.... where? Literally never seen one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe the web results when searching in the start menu? This was previously a local only search and is now a severely degraded experience out of the box. I used reg keys to disable the web search feature long ago and return the prior functionality.

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