I got a laptop that came with Windows 11 pre-loaded, with the intention of wiping it and flashing it with a Linux distribution. But I spent 3 hours poking around Windows 11 to see how it felt. Hot garbage. Three hours of saying no to service subscription offers and turning off features that were intended to harvest user information for targeted advertising or later analysis in the event of a seizure. And that’s just what I saw with no deep dive on logging and process/packet analysis. Spyware through and through.