This falls a little flat to me. I’ve been using desktops since the IBM 8086 clones of the 80s; I don’t recall ever seeing anyone that was passionate about Windows (or MS-DOS before that). Perhaps there were, but I don’t remember them. Microsoft products were just kind of the default after a little while; people used them because it was convenient. Plenty of people are deeply passionate about Macintosh, or whichever Linux distribution they like, but I just don’t see that in Windows. Most people seem to use it because that’s what they have to use in order to play games, or run work applications.

But hey man, if Windows is really your jam, but you don’t like the bloat, then you go right ahead! You are more than welcome to like what you like, and it’s really not my place to tell you that you’re wrong. I use Windows 99% of the time because I’ve got, uh, fuck, 35 years (?!?) of experience using Microsoft products, and the documentation for Tails is really, really spotty. (OMG, I just realized that I went to college the first time using DOS 6.22; I didn’t even have Windows 3.1.)