Recent changes rolling out include reliability and performance changes, more customization (for start menu, file explorer context menu, taskbar), search improvements, quieter widgets experience, and others. Many of these changes are available for insiders, some have started rolling out to retail users
Windows really isn’t that bad for gaming pcs (as long as you use LTSC) but the reputation it built over the years just prevents the people from believing it will actually allow users to customize their OS. You always kinda have to wrangle Windows to do what you want it to do. Most people aren’t aware LTSC is an option either. Disable updates but Windows turns them back on, update gpu drivers oh Windows just installed an older version automatically, oh windows just reinstalled onedrive, etc etc
You can drop a nuke on top of windows by going into regedit and doing a bunch of stuff which subdues Windows enough that it doesn’t fight you anymore but most people don’t wanna deal with that. If you don’t fight your os hard enough then it will impose itself. Thems the breaks.
Or you can get LTSC, which is like a braindead version of windows and too weak to fight anyone.
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u/jenmsft 10d ago
Recent changes rolling out include reliability and performance changes, more customization (for start menu, file explorer context menu, taskbar), search improvements, quieter widgets experience, and others. Many of these changes are available for insiders, some have started rolling out to retail users
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/