I've used Linux and Windows for more than a decade each. I know about desktop Linux' shortcomings and I was using Windows 10 in the last few years because it worked better than Linux for me. There is just too much stuff going on and performance suffers (especially when dealing with Docker for Windows). It also feels that I'm a guinea pig for PMs at Microsoft to experiment on new revenue generating features, but my operating system is not a place where I would want them. It hurts my focus.
Windows 11 finally sent me back to Linux. Despite a few bugs and annoyances here and there, I'm doing my work on Linux more productively than I was on Windows 11. Time to move on for me.
In the end, it feels like I'm not an important customer to Microsoft anymore (as a "power user"). It feels that their target audience are clueless grandmas that can be easily scammed into their products. I don't want this to sound aggressive. It really does feel that way.
What confuses me is the UI changes every version. If Microsoft's bread and butter are "casual" or "clueless" users, aren't they vulnerable to changes much more than power users?
Maybe M$ PMs don't care about confusing your average grandma who can't find the start menu because it moved to the middle of the taskbar. It's not like granny is going to up and switch to a Mac, is it?
Windows 11 finally sent me back to Linux. Despite a few bugs and annoyances here and there, I'm doing my work on Linux more productively than I was on Windows 11. Time to move on for me.
In the end, it feels like I'm not an important customer to Microsoft anymore (as a "power user"). It feels that their target audience are clueless grandmas that can be easily scammed into their products. I don't want this to sound aggressive. It really does feel that way.