I really like Windows. I just wish Copilot could be made fully optional.

Honestly, I can live with Windows 11 being a little slow, and I can deal with File Explorer issues. I can write my own tools to manage some of that, and PowerShell is simple enough for many tasks. Those parts do not bother me that much.

What bothers me is Copilot being pushed into the operating system experience itself. I wish it could simply be treated as an optional feature.

Windows is an operating system. An operating system is the foundational layer that governs the user’s work. Because of that, AI should be an opt-out assistant, not a premise that changes the default behavior of the system.

When I move from Windows 10 to Windows 11, Copilot feels like something that damages the user experience itself.

If Copilot were at the level of GPT or Claude, I probably would not complain as much. But I do not understand why the quality gap feels so large.