While I use Windows on a limited basis, I generally have a hate-hate relationship with it. My transition from an old Dell laptop running Windows 10 (which was out of warranty and having the fans fail) to a new one running Windows 11 hit several of my buttons in this relationship, which I will touch upon here today, in roughly the order I encountered them. And all this is beyond the whole $$ for functionality mindset.
First, there was the fact that Win11 requires a Microsoft login, unless you jump through some hoops, and it creates the home directory with a name which is a substring of the account name. In my case, this meant that cinnion was shortened down to cinni. Why it does this, I have no clue, so have to rack it up to stupidity until I find someone who can explain the real reason to me. Thankfully, this article helped me to change most instances to the former, but the fact that I had to create a Windows equivalent of a symlink to login still makes me wonder how many more are there.
In doing that change, I had to interact with one of my two biggest complaints about Windows... the registry. Rather than store personal configuration entirely in files under the user's home directory, much of this is stored in a database somewhere in the operating system. This was something I seriously disliked about IBM's AIX UNIX implementation, and I outright hate it in Windows.
Speaking of files, there is no way to just copy files from one machine to another. They seem to be leaning towards OneDrive, but it only backs up some of your files. And if you go the old Win7 Backup/Restore route, it wants to preserve the entire path when restoring. Now, there may be a program I could pay for out there, but I am not going to spend more money. I resorted to using numerous zip files.
So, at this time, I am still getting used to the changes, and getting programs installed on the new system After all, there is no equivalent to a package manager to list the installed programs out in a text file. But I do have to say, I seriously dislike the start menu... I want a place where I can go through a tree of installed programs. At least the WSL subsystem is still there, but that too required some tricks to copy the couple dozen files I use there.