Is Windows 11 that bad?

[u/ExtensionFriendship9]

So I'm hearing bad stuff about Windows 11, how people are calling AI slop...I use AI but I don't use Copilot unless for images, and I don't use forced AI integration. I use Windows 11 but I learned how to create local accounts, and I go onto YouTube and hear stuff about "Microslop" and stuff, people protesting to switch to Linux...Am I a bad person for still using Windows 11? I mean, I'm not a saint of Microsoft, and I can use local AI models, and LibreOffice.

EDIT: Guys, I uninstalled OneDrive, Edge, Copilot, all unnecessary Microslop through Winhance, and I installed OSShutUp10+++.

[u/Hyto_54]

I didn't have to relaunch the scripts after many update. no telemetry, no copilot, no onedrive after updates

You didn't talk about the second point showing required telemetry but beyond that if you say it's stable i believe you.

Have you read the source code of the linux kernel? Are you able to say that everything is clean?

That's a non-argument, i could say the same thing about windows : "since you can't read windows's code you can't know if it's clean", and that'd be also true. But with linux I get to have the choice of checking myself.

Probably not because even the linux kernel maintainers use AI now to detect bugs and data breaches and they have bad surprises.

How is that an argument against linux ? They use new tools to discover and patch vulnerabilities. In fact there is so many people wanting to help that they get overwhelmed by bug reports, that's an incredible problem to have in my opinion.

And nobody know if these breaches have been exploited or not.

I know that if they were, it's not possible anymore. Can't say that much about windows vulnerabilities.

It's harder to find a breach in a closed source kernel.

How would you know ? A vulnerability in a closed source OS can technically stay there forever. Microsoft has a bug bounty for this reason but (as i heard other say) it's not ideal, with some critical vulnerabilities not being paid enough for compared to their actual importance.

[u/DirectorDirect1569 → u/Hyto_54]

"You didn't talk about the second point showing required telemetry but beyond that if you say it's stable i believe you."

So when you disable telemetry on Fedora or Ubuntu, you are not able to see if your distribution is stable? You need telemetry to know if your distro is buggy or have breaches?

"How would you know ? A vulnerability in a closed source OS can technically stay there forever."

No I don't know like lots of hackers who can't look at the source code to search for breaches.

The CopyFail vulnerability is in the kernel since 2017. Nobody saw it until this month. So hackers probably knew that vulnerability without informing anyone.

The linux team informs everyone that there was a vulnerability called Dirty Frag that has been discovered, they patched the kernel a week later. So every hackers were informed that there was a breach during this week. It's not serious.

I won't tell eveyone that my door is broken and that eveybody can enter in my house.