KadathI am a Senior Unix Systems Engineer with 27 years of experience, and I can tell you that the Office alternatives are just not there. While MS Office has its plethora of issues, it is the de facto standard. Office on web just doesn't cut it. While all of my machines are *nix based, I always have a VM with Windows where I have the full blown Office suite.

Chrispy_Microsoft just don't get it, do they? An almost negligible fraction of people care about Windows. They run it because it's what they have, it's compatible with what they have, and it runs the software they want.

Nobody wants to do a Windows upgrade.
Nobody wants to learn a new interface that's different simply for the sake of being different.
Nobody wants to be pushed incessantly towards paid cloud services from Microsoft for browsing, searching, AI assistance, file storage, webapps that don't need to be webapps at all, etc.

If I created a poll at work and asked what people most wanted from an operating system, I'm confident enough to bet my own life that the majority just want it to be more responsive and less intrusive, in other words, they think windows is a slow, bloated mess full of unwelcome and unnecessary irritations and interruptions.

DirtyBikerWow some real haters here windows 11 is great and easy to fix all the privacy telemetry and other issues besides if you use any web browser they're collecting just as much data on you if not more and even more if you own a cell phone with one or two apps on it That's just the world we live in today does that excuse it no we need change across the board but that's just going to mean you can't use your Windows 7 product key for Windows 12 in the future which is what I run on multiple machines so I take the good with the bad and just disable the bad besides Windows is superior always has been always will be to any other operating system

AusWolfLike I said, it depends on what you use it for. If you need macros, and all complex stuff, then fair enough.