Windows 11 really isn't THAT bad

Just a disclaimer, I am not a shareholder of Microsoft.

I am going to get flamed for this. I will admit, Windows 11 is a horribly bloated mess. It has so many things that could be improved and using 8gb of RAM with 4 browser tabs open and nothing else is ridiculous. But it's also really not as bad as people say it is. One of the biggest complaints is Copilot everywhere, but I just... uninstalled it and ignored it everywhere it stayed. It's pretty easy to just not click the button for it. Also, it's actually pretty useful in Paint, the background remover is incredibly good, and again, I ignore the generative part. Would Windows be better without Copilot? Yes. Is it the end of the world? No.

Another common complaint is pop ups on startup. These are a mild inconvenience at worst. I just click not now or Remind Me in 3 Days. I would certainly prefer them to just shut up because I'm not using OneDrive and never will, but it takes me about 2 seconds to say no and move on.

The last one to address is the start menu. I will never understand the hate this gets. 99% of the time it's faster for me to just type like 4 letters of the program I want and press enter than it is to click a specific program.

Now I will say, if your computer can't support Windows 11 because of the absolutely ridiculous requirements I can understand the anger. That's the worst part of Win11 and there's no defense, it's stupid. Also, if you switched to Linux and everything was super fast and amazing, great, more power to you. But you're trading the incredible ease and seamlessness that Windows offers for it. Personally, I will click away from a pop up for being able to just download an .exe and execute it with no command prompts or anything.