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I'm currently using Linux due to this kind of hostile behavior from Microsoft on Windows.

However, we are power users and the big masses won't care about an ever increasing misalignment between the users' needs and Microsoft's. We cannot vote with our wallets, e.g. by using Linux instead. It won't matter.

What we could maybe do is contribute to projects like ReactOS[0] and make it easier for the layperson to migrate to it if modern Windows finally annoys them. Just food for thought.

[0] https://reactos.org/

>>haolez+(OP)
I keep thinking that when my grandma's laptop gets too slow from all the Windows updates, I'll install some linux on it and teach her that so she doesn't have to keep learning how the new Windows works every time (because, indeed, the masses aren't switching). Won't have a problem with malware either. Cinnamon is 100% stable for me and very similar to Windows, that's going to be as much effort to learn as Windows 11 would be.

Now, if only I could convince my dad, he might allow me trying to put it on my mom's computer as well... he insists on buying Microsoft Office for everyone under his roof so that I don't have an excuse to install LibreOffice

Sometimes it seems like old-ish white men is why we can't have nice things (I'm gonna be one of those :/)