7 General suggestions to Windows and its Apps

I have one final point regarding third-party Fluent apps alternatives to native ones. I will call it #8 for future reference:

I came across many people on YouTube saying how "spoiled" they've become by Linux's blazing fast and accurate search. On many Linux systems, you can find any file or application on your computer almost instantaneously; whereas, with the native Windows search, it may take a few seconds to get results. As I briefly mentioned in point #3, third-party applications (Fluent Search, Everything Toolbar, etc.) outperform native apps in both speed and fluent sytle, but they need to "coexist" with the native one, rather than actually integrating with it, so they are often left running in the background.

This coexistence has implications that are objectively inefficient in resource usage and UX friction, as shown below:

• Resource usage: This increases RAM and CPU consumption for a single task because these modern apps cannot replace the native 'Search' (which is a heavy composite of Edge WebView2 processes), the system ends up running both. Evidence: Open the Task Manager, where it's possible to see the Edge WebView composite processes on 'Search', even if it's disabled from the taskbar and using an alternative. On my test system, the native Search consumes around 100mb of RAM when idle. Reproducible steps: Simply downloading any of these apps and comparing them to the native search.
• UX Friction: If the goal is a fast and easy one-step search access, most third-party applications will require additional clicks or keyboard shortcuts to access/display them and are confined to floating taskbar icons/bars, which prevents users from having a seamless experience with the OS. Evidence: self-evident while utilizing them. Some developers worked around it by making the floating bar to be auto-selected when called, but none can replicate the capacity of clicking an actual, present search bar on the taskbar and instantly seeing the blinking cursor on it. Reproducible steps: Simply by trying to get the same experience from the native searchbar on taskbar with thirdy-party apps.

Conclusion, fluent apps can only be intercalled with old native system tools by users and serve as an 'What if' instead of being actually made into the system. Projects like 'Files' or 'Fluent Task Scheduler' show what is possible, but they shouldn't have to fight the OS to exist.

Furthermore, it's contradictory that Windows 11 — a paid OS — is increasingly cluttered with ads and telemetry that may contribute to slower perceived system responsiveness, while free alternatives like Linux remain clean and performant without ads. This, combined with the instability I've personally experienced (such as a total system corruption caused by a simple icon cache rebuild via WinToys; it was only solved after a clean reinstall), shows that Microsoft needs to listen to the community and fix core architectural flaws. Reducing or even removing ads, making the system less distracting and more performant by removing bloat and opening the system more by offering more hooks into system UI (With care concerning Windows' safety) can be the first steps to mitigate those flaws.