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I really don’t see the issue with W11. It works fine. As did 10, and 8.1. I’ve not encountered any ads or many of the other shitty things that are constantly reported on.
If you're a technical person, or you run Windows Pro instead of Home, you probably won't see as much crap. But there's a ton of new telemetry/tracking in Win10 that's even worse in 11.
As someone who's been part of OS and software deployment since before WinNT, Win11 is hot garbage unless we do all sorts of preconfig to not make it so.
This isn't really new, just that much worse in 11. With the previous versions of Windows, we didn't have to configure as many Group Policies to restrict as much nonsense. And the home versions of 10/11 are so much worse, especially since they don't support GP, you have to Registry Stamp any changes you want to make to disable all the telemetry garbage - stamps which an update can easily revert. At least GP is reapplied at boot/login.
I don't let my family buy Home versions of Windows. Pro costs more, because it's worth it from a support perspective.
I appreciate the insight. Just curious, do you have a link to things I should be disabling in group policy?
Typically I’m not a fan of modifying that much especially registry wise, as I feel this is a cause for many people’s problems, but I’m not uncomfortable making GP changes if they make sense.
I’m currently using W11 Pro activated with massgravel scripts and I’ve got DNS level blocking set up on my network, although I’m not sure how well that does at blocking telemetry. It’s my second line ad block primarily.