Actually, Windows is doing worse. If it wouldn't be for the modestly-priced ubiquitous PC hardware it runs on, Windows would be a story of the past. On the desktop it is still doing better than Linux though, however, that is a low-hanging bar to pass.

It isn't only the thing that Windows installs third-party applications by default. The worst thing about Windows 11 is what you failed to mention along with the complaint of the "Other options..." entry in the context menu: Windows 11 comes not with one, or two, but three different UIs. The "Other options" entry in the context menu of a file leads to an UI that was created in Windows 7, and asking the system to fire up the Registry Editor, the "Disk manager" or anything that comes as a plugin into the system management console, you are back to Windows 2000. They killed the Metro UI as a fourth option almost thoroughly in W11, I cannot think of any app using it anymore there (aside from legacy Windows Store Apps). That was the UI introduced in W8 and most prominently visible in W10 still in the "Settings"-app.

Then Windows is lacking a easily user-accessible backup solution which I consider an essential part of any operating system, way more important than coming along with a copy of Instagram or LibreOffice (yes, Linux, that means you). There is a solution in Windows, but MS doesn't seem to like users using it: it is the old-fashioned "Windows 7" backup, which has its issues, but provides you with both the option to do a full one-time system backup as well as incremental backups afterwards - even onto a share of a file server. It is almost what Time Machine is giving you on macOS, but with issues: you need to create a restore media to boot from in case of emergency (on Mac there is the recovery partition by default, and, if all hell breaks lose, you can download and run a recovery from the internet), and whereas you are able to store your backups on a NAS without problems, the restore media will lack the network drivers to access your NAS if you want to do a full system restore (whereas the recovery of macOS has no issues at all accessing a backup on a NAS). And, to add insult to injury:: the configuration of this backup solution is hard to find in Windows these days and most likely to be removed soon: if you do not know where to find it, you won't. As MS want's you to use the MS Cloud (OneDrive) as your backup solution. That solution doesn't help you much when you need a OS restore. It is reinstall Window from scratch then, only user data is saved in the backup - not even installed applications, (And Linux, being the worst here, hasn't even something like Windows 7 backup, not to mention Time Machine - instead it has only some components enabling you to roll your own backup solution).

With those issues, it isn't even worth mentioning that Windows feels uncomfortable for anyone used to Unix (Linux or macOS these days). I am a software developer, and installing software development tools not aiming at developing software for Windows only (and I do not develop software with Windows being the only runtime platform) is less comfortable on Windows than it is on any Unix-derived platform. There is WSL but it only takes you so far.