Published May 10, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Rob LeFebvre is an editor and writer focusing on consumer and enterprise technologies for a broad range of outlets. He’s been writing online for more than 15 years; before that he was a special educator for kids with severe disabilities. Rob has been an Editorial Director at Lifewire, a news writer at Engadget, and a senior contributor at Cult of Mac. He's written about PCs, Macs, mobile phones, and games, created newsrooms from the ground up, and has extensive experience reviewing hardware, software, and games across his career.  I hate Windows. Full stop. I have to use it for work, like many of you, but it's just a mess to use. It's become a product that continues to treat us all like the thing being sold instead of the customer. There are ads in the Start menu , telemetry that's hard to disable , and an AI assistant we're still not asking for. Through it all, though, what keeps me using Microsoft's bloated OS is gaming.…