I bought an HP laptop with a ‘-s’ attached to its model name. It’s promoted to stand for ‘safe’ and ‘secure’, and ‘sales brochure’ because it only allows software from MS to be downloaded.
I finally had to buy a new laptop. My old one was literally falling apart (hinges loose, chunks of the plastic case falling off). It was 7-8 years old and had served me well.
Ended up with Windows 11. It’s the worst piece of excrement ever.
Can’t do anything unless you get it from the MS app store. Can’t scan anymore with my old scanner printer (won’t allow drivers to install). Won’t allow me to use old laser printer (won’t allow drivers to install).
Nephew, who’s a whiz (works literally 80 hours per week in cyberland) fixed a few things but he purposely never uses Windows anymore and definitely not W11.
I knew I should have bought a Mac, but even they have some quirky limitations.
“because it only allows software from MS to be downloaded.”
Should be able to disable that in the BIOS settings.