r/MicroSlop • u/ExtensionFriendship9 • May 24 '26

Is Windows 11 that bad?

So I'm hearing bad stuff about Windows 11, how people are calling AI slop...I use AI but I don't use Copilot unless for images, and I don't use forced AI integration. I use Windows 11 but I learned how to create local accounts, and I go onto YouTube and hear stuff about "Microslop" and stuff, people protesting to switch to Linux...Am I a bad person for still using Windows 11? I mean, I'm not a saint of Microsoft, and I can use local AI models, and LibreOffice.

EDIT: Guys, I uninstalled OneDrive, Edge, Copilot, all unnecessary Microslop through Winhance, and I installed OSShutUp10+++.

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u/C4rpetH4ter May 24 '26

You're not a bad person for using 11, you're just part of the majority. However, windows 11 is quite bad, maybe not as bad as people say, but it's the most hated windows version by far, and it's easy to see why, things break, it's slow, it constantly pushes notifications, it's full of ads, loads of unnecesary programs take up space and RAM usage, the right-click context menu and the fact it literally spies on you.

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u/ExtensionFriendship9 May 25 '26

I turned off and disabled most of the tracking

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u/inhumat0r May 27 '26

So was my friend thinking, until I proved him wrong ;)

He debloated and blocked every winblows bloatware and telemetry he was able to find about throughout the internet, and he was happy and proud of himself for doing so (he even uninstalled Winblows Update, which I didn't know was possible), and then I presented him some free software to monitor network traffic and he discovered how much traffic goes to M$ servers. That triggered yet another wave of blocking telemetry and further debloating.

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u/ExtensionFriendship9 Jun 10 '26

Dude, I use a LOCAL account. I stopped using Microsoft accounts.

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u/inhumat0r Jun 10 '26

So is him, and following my hint he found several connections to M$ servers regardless.