So, let's just say I've been stuck the past few years, hopin' Microsoft would get their s*** together and all the while experiencing worse performance by the day, even on a respectable PC from several generations back. Now I hear that Win11 24H4 is OVERLOADING the PC of one of the ReactOS devs. I'm stayin' on Win10 thank you very much, and no "your pc is at risk(!1!)" isn't a valid excuse.
Bugs, general errors, and performance failures are on the rise, but the only thing Microshaft* is interested in is "features", and not ONE of them is conducive to the desktop experience. This whole thing started with Windows 10, and it started with the forced upgrade crisis of Windows 7, one that I was subject to which subsequently saw Win10 overheat my hard drive for utterly no reason. Who's the ho running this show? Sun Tzu has always maintained that if an army fails, the general's at fault, and you are a perfect example.
While the Linux project and its distros have seen a bit of a golden age, it hasn't been without pain, with people from various projects being bequeathed a boot to the head for not exactly aligning with corporate narcissism. Whenever suit money's involved, expect the leaders of these projects to act like suits to keep the money flowing. Most of the guys who got boots to the head are some of the most prolific programmers in the projects, lifting them by the shoulder like logs. Even the core Linux project wasn't immune. Linus Torvalds himself was convinced by someone in our already-troubled US government to follow sanctions even though he didn't have to (I'm no lawyer).
Thankfully, some have started to fight back. The main committer of XOrg's XServer, who's been attempting to kill it in favor of an incomplete Wayland, hard-forked it into XLibre XServer out of a desire to see its continued success. However, the corps who have control over some major Linux distros and projects (say IBM and Canonical) are more than a little concerned about how XLibre just gave their existence a time limit, and have subsequently started to fight back.
To be honest, this is an extension of a perpetual loop for the X Project, starting way back in the 90s when Linux and Unix were on the rise. Corporations try to take over, Libre loyalists fork it to continue their work. It's worse now actually, because the tech industry realized it relies on Linux too much to NOT spin a profit.
* That was intentional, Microsoft. Sue me.