I recently bought a mini laptop with an Intel N100 chip that came with W11 pre-installed. My work PC is running some enterprise LTS version of Windows 10, which feels barely any different from Windows from the past 15 years or so.

Imagine my shock when I booted up W11. It felt like Bill Gates' wildest fantasies of vendor lock-in come to life, if the DOJ and EU cases never happened. A non-removable Edge icon on taskbar, Copilot bloat, lock screen widgets showing tabloid nonsense from MSN.com disguised as 'news'. Even the taskbar couldn't be oriented vertically!

Thankfully I was able to install Linux on it (Aurora, based on Fedora) on a separate partition, and wifi, touchscreen, usb and other things work. I hadn't tried Linux at all in over 10 years, and was worried about bricking the machine. With W11 being this bad, it was more than worth it!