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Windows is actually fedware these days.
(Fedware that also scams and aggrevates the feds themselves) if you post here you owe it to yourself to dump that hot garbage as soon as you can.
Going back to the earliest versions of Microsoft's on-disk encryption it was backdoored by the feds. They've always been the AT&T of OS vendors per US government cooperation
The issue for me that had me buy a Windows 11 laptop was it was the cheapest I could find. Though I have since then given it away and replaced it with a Steam Deck as my only computer.