I use Windows 11 at work. I don’t hate it. I’d be ambivalent if we used Macs at work (I use them at home, and I prefer them). I mean it might be a good choice, I don’t know how they are in corporate environments, it’d be fine though. Linux would be… interesting. Nah, though, I’m fine with Windows at work. We use Windows 11 Pro and it has Copilot and we’re instructed not to tell Copilot anything we wouldn’t want getting out (like no trade secrets, nothing that isn’t public knowledge). I ask it random questions occasionally when I’m bored. It’s fine. I would never want Windows on my home computers, though. I think Windows is fine at work. Let work worry about Windows’ shortcomings. Maybe it’s not a problem for them.

Honestly, I’d love a Windows Basic that just kinda looks like Windows 98 (or maybe Windows 7) and has all the security features but none of the “fun” features. Like just drop me in a shell with a file manager, notepad, calculator, the old MS Paint, and let me install whatever. Have it have the app compatibility of 11. And, you know, kick the registry out, we don’t need it anymore. I know, I’m making a hell of a case for using Linux Mint here. What I’m really saying is, as a Mac guy who can use any of the platforms and doesn’t mind using them… Windows does not need to suck as bad as it has been. Windows can be fixed. And it can still remain on its current course for the generations who actually want it to work like that. I’m just saying let pros have a clean one. Make something that makes us Mac guys, and the Linux guys say “hey that’s alright.”