[ThatMedicIsASpy]

Windows 10 searching the web started it all for me - not AI. Followed by constantly changing/moving the option on how to disable it. Use Edge, Onedrive, help finish setting up your PC (by logging in), constant disrespect of me the user.

W11 local accounts only with terminal hacks sealed the deal along with valves contributions to linux.

[BLKNSLVR]

The dumbification of Control Panel to Settings was one of the factors for me.

I'm not sure if Control Panel is still available, hidden away somewhere, but I've since moved on to pastures that only seen to get greener when compared with the Microsoft Windows paddock. They're somehow finding new shades of brown on a monthly basis.

[larrik]

The idea made sense to me, but the execution was trash.

Settings was slow, it wasn't any easier than control panel, and if you wanted to do anything that mattered you ended up in control panel apps which were completely jarring UI-wise from the rest of the PC.

[mancerayder]

It's the movement, a vast Zeitgeist of evil, away from categorizing and organization, and towards Search.

I hate it. I was looking at how to fix the dark screen that resulted from turning on HDR in Windows 11, which some games need at the OS level for some reason, and Search was never giving me the Exact Keyword you need.

Search is always a guessing game, and you end up Googling the answer, it's so incredibly inefficient.