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20 years ago things weren’t so shit
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Your confirmation bias will not prove anything.
Users have been complaining about every piece of software forever. They do not do it more on Windows 11 than they did on Windows 7 or XP.
I also work in IT support for more than a decade.
And switching to Linux just is not an option. They just do not have a decent answer to Active Directory. And retraining users to use a completely different operating system will have bankrupted plenty of businesses.
Not really. People stood in lines for Windows 95. I don't think I ever heard a complaint specifically about that OS. 2000 brought the 95 interface to the NT kernel. XP got mild criticism for looking childish, but people liked it as a stability improvement from 95 and 98.
Vista was the first Microsoft OS that saw a lot of backlash. It was more secure, but ran slowly on anything that wasn't very new hardware. 7 was widely enjoyed, 8 was mixed (very tolerable with something like ClassicShell), 10 was beloved, and 11 is widely hated for a huge variety of reasons.
Can you find someone with a complaint about any of these OSes? Sure, but that's meaningless. The fact is that MS has released both beloved and hated OSes, and Vista is the only one to receive as much hate as 11.