# The annoyance that is Windows 11 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 24, 2026, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annoyance-that-is-windows-11/1029530 "2026-04-24T08:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 74
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annoyance-that-is-windows-11/1029530/74 "2026-04-30T12:25:31Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Forcing OneDrive down our throats is one of the reasons I’m considering the move to something Linux based. It’s why i did switch my travel laptop to Linux (Ubuntu). It was much less painful than i feared. I did have help. My husband made a bootable thumb drive that i used both to see if it would have the driver’s to handle my hardware, and to do the install from. And I got help here (and in other venues) for the one application i had trouble with. > [@Anyone seriously considering the switch from Windows to Linux?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seriously-considering-the-switch-from-windows-to-linux/1025650/21): > > Okay, so if i wanted to convert this laptop to Linux, where should i begin? And let me start by saying that it’s an HP spectre x360 convertible 13, and it’s valuable to me that i can fold it into a tent and use the touch screen to control a movie as the tent is propped on the little table in front of me airplane seat. (And I’m really cranky that Netflix won’t let me download movies onto it any more. But YouTube let’s me do that, so it remains useful to watch movies on the plane.) It’s old eno… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-annoyance-that-is-windows-11/1029530)._