the screenshot does not look like nautilus, maybe xfce?

This is a bug, not enshittification. How would they profit from that?

Germany is one of the countries against the current chat surveillance proposal, so at least we have that going for us (which is nice)

Macs are not really what I think of when reading “middle of the road linux”

there is a base implementation basically all compositors are based on

I recently stopped switching to x11 for gaming. With most games, the performance is 5-10fps better on Wayland

They created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it’s pretty useless today.

Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s

I get why they do it though - any change to win10 needs testing and so on and might not be welcomed by the user base. You can always download a free (as in freedom) image editor, some are even on the Microsoft Store. Be glad they did not backport all the bad sides of win11…