Technology

I have to use Windows 11 at work. Whenever I complain about it to any of my friends, they say, "it's easy to work around that. You just have to..." and then they say to modify some registry key, or set up a group policy, or run a powershell command, or use some cleaning tool.

But even if it's easy to do that, it's not easy.

1. You have to know about the key or the cleaning tool, and there's a different one for every problem.
2. You have to keep up to date with the new user-hostile behavior introduced to Windows every month.
3. You have to keep up to date because Microsoft removes those circumventions, because they don't want you to be able to remove their trash.
4. You have to vet the tools, make sure they're not malware. And continuously make sure it's not replaced by malware in the future. There's no central repository of Windows programs like there is for Debian or Ubuntu, so if you just web search for the tool name every time, you might click on a malvertising link in the search results instead.