From the article Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation:
This cost us hours and hours of our lives, causing especially my wife a significant amount of stress, during an already very difficult time in our lives (which I won’t get into). I’m seething with rage towards Microsoft and its utter incompetence and maliciousness. Let me, for once, not mince words here: Windows 11 is a travesty, a loose collection of dark patterns and incompetence, run by people who have zero interest in lovingly crafting an operating system they can be proud of. Windows has become a vessel for subscriptions and ads, and cannot reasonably be considered anything other than a massive pile of user-hostile dark patterns designed to extract data, ad time, and subscription money from its users.
If you can switch away and ditch Windows, you should. The ship is burning, and there’s nobody left to put out the fires.
Couldn’t agree more.
Don’t trust Microsoft to make good decisions in your best interest.