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The reason people say Windows is "crap" isn't the performance, it's the ads.
kinda is the performance also though, that's the reason I switched from Windows just over a year ago. My laptop battery was horrible. on win11 I might get maybe an hour out of it. Also for whatever reason Windows insisted on constantly removing my Wifi adapter completely where the only "fix" was completely reinstalling the OS. I had enough and switched to linux.
My laptop battery now lasts 3+hours and haven't had any issues with wifi. Also as an added bonus I noticed better performance/higher FPS with games as opposed to Windows on the exact same machine.
That's definitely it for me. I have one Windows computer remaining, my gaming PC in my living room. And every few weeks, when I turn it on, I get the full-screen "let's finish setting up Windows" wizard, which wants me to subscribe to Office 365 and OneDrive. This PC is six years old; it's set up already. I'm going to install Bazzite pretty soon.
I left before the ads era. That's sounds awful. I'll search to see how they look.
I use linux on my laptop because for some reason windows makes it heat up like crazy and I have to activate the noisy fans, which I'd like to not do at work.