> Animated ads in the start menu tiles
I wouldn't know, I removed the default tiles and I'm just using stuff I manually pinned.
> I've had to upgraded and restart almost every other day for 4 weeks
My uptime currently is 7 days, last reboot was me wanting to manually upgrade to 20H2. YMMV.
> There are ads that keep reapparing in the tiles on update
Hasn't happened to me.
> there are constant popus reminding me to log in to my windows account
I'm using a local account, I don't get any popup to log in using my Microsoft account.
> nVidia ads popping up in the lower-right corner
How? I've never seen this in my life. I'm running an NVIDIA card.
> MSoft ads popping up in the lower-right corner
I think I got the "you should upgrade to New Edge" popup once, doesn't appear anymore because I did (I wanted to try it out)
> Also, day one: tried installing some LabView software and BSOD
No BSOD yet, but YMMV, drivers can vary in quality.
> Starting a new app takes about 15~30 seconds
I wouldn't know. I've got 64 GB of RAM and a fast NVMe. Nothing loads in more than one second from cold start for me.
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Either brand PC are loaded with additional crap (of course I ran the O&O Shut Up 10 thing just after first installation) or my experience is much nicer than I've read on this forum.