I bought a Microsoft tablet last year. I spent a whole day installing updates - like 4 hours. Then I had to force Bing to Google - not possible - and Edge to Firefox - partly possible. I had to remove many trial apps and other noise from the start menu, and a news widget from the task bar. Keeping telemetry off through many rounds of dark patterns was a challenge.

The fight against windows update had not begun yet. At that point I just returned the device. Even if you removed all the dark patterns, the root OS feels completely unpolished and inconsistent.