Not too related but that's one of the reasons I switched to macOS and struggle to move back. Even back in Windows 7 there was already a lot of preinstalled crap that just made me feel gross about my installation. Now with Windows 11 the situation seems astronomically worse. I don't want to feel disgusted by my OS installation out of the box. In that sense (of course there are other downsides) macOS feels almost totally pure out of the box, although the Apple Music stuff is an early red flag to me.
I don't feel all that different on Mac. When I get a new one the dock is covered in crap I don't care about. I use zero of the apple apps except maybe Music to play mp3 so I have to spend a bunch of time removing them from the dock and argubly I should uninstall them
Then in notifications there's more crap like news, sports, stocks I have zero interest in as have to uninstall.
Then it nags me about Apple TV (the subscription service) as well as Game Center.
I use my Mac 10x more than my PC but it's very similar in how much stuff I have to remove.
Just in the last 2 weeks I set up a new M1 Mac and upgraded to Windows 11 on my gamer PC. Sure Windows is worse but both are full of bloat.
