These fullscreen messages are so confusing to elderly people, most of my support calls from family and friends are related to the weird and unpredictable updates and invasive popups, or the consequences from these.<p>I have slowly been moving them, one by one, over to Fedora. I still get support calls, but not related to the OS, more like, "how do I add an attachment to this email, I forgot."
I usually keep a minimal Windows partition on my machines by reducing the Windows install that comes with my machines down to 100 gig or even less.<p>But over the last few years, the Windows 10 and Windows 11 installations are being booted occasionally merely to update the Windows itself.<p>More and more I'm considering that to be a waste of time, because I don't use Win 10 or Win 11 for anything practical. I only use Win 7 when I do use Windows.<p>It's probably time to blow away those Win 10 and Win 11 partitions entirely, I think.
They're increasingly becoming UX hostile.<p>Also, what's up with the random "welcome to your new device, lets set everything up". Seen that about 4 times already on my current W11 install.
Too bad Linux still can't offer a desktop alternative that is widely acceptable.<p>Personally, I am contemplating moving to a server version of Windows on my desktop. This AI nonsense looks like just a privacy invasion scheme.