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Windows 11 took the enshittification to a whole new level. While there has always been legitimate criticism of Microsoft's business practices and anti-consumer behaviour, it's never been as bad as it is now.
People who just use a web browser can easily move over to linux.
The main problem is the "power user" types who have built up years of windows specific knowledge and don't want to learn a new system and don't want their knowledge to become useless. These are the people that normies go to for advice on computer related questions and they aren't going to suggest moving over to linux even if someone only uses their computer for web browsing.
A complete disaster, just the majority because all the earlier versions got dropped
What has changed is that for this version change, they are telling a lot of people to trash perfectly fine, working devices.
The evidence shows otherwise as the marketshare of Linux increases every year.
I've started hassling the (very small-c conservative) workplace to consider a change.
But you see my challenge: for so many companies, we need to see a rapid outlook-to-something switch that we can sell up the management chain.