Win11 is still awful
What I don't understand is how Microsoft still can't see how dreadful Win11 is. I'll try it from time to time on a VM but it's simply a bad OS. With gaming still not having moved on from the PS5 generation, other than the yahoos interested in LLMs and Machine learning there little to no reason to upgrade hardware. A Zen2 processor is still doing its good work on a B450 board. The hardware really hasn't been struggling at all.
Sadly, although I dual boot Ubuntu and Win10 I still don't have a long term solution past the EoS. Windows 11 isn't the solution for me with it's bloat and it's poor design choices. Ubuntu, and indeed all Linux distros are not the solution either. They carry with them the *ability* to do almost anything, but not the usability either without a massive learning curve.
There are those here on elReg who I'm sure will criticise those planning to just ride out the expiry of Win10 support. Fact is though that there is no realistic solution. The machines that work now, will be capable of running things as they are in another eleven months, so from a User perspective why should they be thrown away.
Microsoft tried these scare tactics once before with Win7/8 and failed. Users often don't understand the impacts of EoS. Which means the real question is - how long before Microsoft wake up and realise that they either need to remove trash like copilot, or extend support for Win10 again. The real answer of course is that both need to happen. Just like it went down last time!