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I only "upgraded" to Windows 10 (from 7) last year due to software I needed for work. Windows 10 is bad enough, I'm definitely not "upgrading" to 11 until I have to.
In my experience, 10 runs much slower than 7 with so many updates that just kill performance as they're running. And I've had pop-up adverts recently and programs that open on startup despite being disabled
I mean... you go, grandpa.
But hey, that is a fair point. A lot of people talk about moving to Win11 like it's something normies will want to avoid like the plague, as if all the things they point at as dealbreaking enshittification haven't been rolling back to Win10 pretty much in real time. Hardware incompatibilities aside (and those are probably overstated, too) the leap will probably be very smooth unless the person in question is simultaneously extremely activist about hating modern Windows and extremely reluctant to use anything else.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it. I have Linux on my laptop but I cba dealing with bootloaders on my desktop and can't lose Windows altogether.
(Last time I tried dualbooting was with XP I think, so probably it's a lot easier now than it used to be but still..)
Honestly, dual booting is mostly fine now, I'm just annoyed by how awkward and inconvenient it still is to share a local hard drive across both systems and it feels weird to be cut off from physically mounted hard drives that are right there in your system just because there is no universally accepted OS-agnostic modern filesystem.
These days I have one computer with Windows and one with Linux. My solution ended up being sharing files over a local network and using GNOME so I can easily remote desktop from my Windows machine if I have to. It's less annoying than the performative "run Windows in a virtual machine" thing people like to brag about and I wanted to keep a machine constantly running as a little home server anyway.