I recently just reinstalled windows on my gaming pc and arch on my laptop, and I completely agree with you. especially the fact that now windows 11 force you to sign in. I know it can be skipped, and average users probably wont care, but FUCK YOU MICROSOFT!
archinstall is such a breeze, and in general for linux, I can control precisely what to install and configure it to be exactly how I like it, as opposed to windows I had to find some sketchy debloater scripts to remove all the craps, disable the telemetries, and hoping it doesn't break anything.
And if I break anything, linux always have detailed documentations, where as windows...its always some indian guy on youtube teaching you how to run windows troubleshooter and hand you more sketchy scripts
I don't like being cryptic at all, but "free speech" doesn't always include discriminatory ones. And being flawed, I can't stop my brain from generating those thoughts, so I just tried to be a slightly friendlier a*hole. Otherwise I could have said: PhD, yeah of course, so many of them are so used to writing shitty code without peer reviews for so long, that totally checks out. And Indian...again. well, no wonder.