I hate Widows 11. On principle. I also hate Windows 10. Definitely hated Windows 8, and managed to never use it. If I could I'd still be using Windows 7. Or Windows XP, even.
It's not that I don't like change. I like change! On my terms, though. I don't like is being forced to change.
But the inevitability of updates catches up to us all sooner or later, whether we want to or not.
I could rebel go Linux and never look back. Except... I would be looking back, frequently, I'm sure, whenever I'd want to use a program I'm used to, or even play a game.
I've tried Linux before. Guess what, I'm still on Windows.
I know Linux has come a long way, but I'm also deeply attached to Windows. I've been using it since 3.11. It's etched on my blood at this point. Much like Photoshop. Sadly. I'd love to switch to Clip Studio Paint, which I have bought a couple of years ago and used... once.
I feel like I just don't have the time and energy to put into the struggle of learning something new.
Anyway. I ended up accepting that sooner or later I'll have to get into Windows 11, and the other day I finally let it crawl into my laptop. I was expecting to be angry at it, I was ready to hate it.
I don't hate it? I... I kinda like it?? I do find it weird to have the launch at the center instead of the left corner, not so much cause it's at the center but because everything accumulates on the right and the left stays empty. That's weird. But that's the only thing that's bothered me so far. Yes, it look different, but I like the difference, actually. And I like the new sounds. They're softer and less annoying.
I don't know what to do this feeling of realizing I was wrong, that I let myself go with the flow of the haters and doomers. Ha!
(I'll still be keeping a close eye on Windows and making sure it's doing what *I* want and not what it wants. I hate that everything is connected to the internet now, even it you don't want it or need it to)
