[pharmakom]

I once would have agreed with you, but the advertisements and pushiness in Windows are simply unacceptable at this point.

[gamblor956]

Given that I have not paid for Windows in almost 2 decades, I am okay with a little bit of advertising.

All of my Windows PCs just work. And I can stick pretty much any hardware and they just work.

I can't say the say for any of the Apple devices that my friends own, all of whom have had to have them replaced at some point.

[tsimionescu]

The EU is fixing that as well - we'll soon see the privacy version of Win 11 launched in the EU as well.

[filoleg]

That's cool and all, but I either can wait for that to happen or not happen (which is not a certainty), or I can just use macOS (or a flavor of Linux).

Sure, the EU will fix things like they've managed to do in the past with other internet-related stuff (e.g., cookie notices). And I will definitely re-evaluate this take once things change in terms of ads for Windows. But until that happens, I don't see "the EU will fix that" as a valid point in favor of Windows.