As someone who refuses to upgrade from Windows 10, it's because all the new and invasive features that 11 adds are things I refuse to go anywhere near. I don't need ads in my operating system, I don't need a system to track every action done on the computer, I don't need a slower user interface rewritten in the latest shiny framework and I certainly don't want any more Copilot integration.

Unfortunately, a lot of niche communities have decided to stick to developing for Windows machines no matter what (especially game development and modding ones), so using Linux isn't that practical about now.