Found this Google docs PDF that’s a pretty good read on it. Keep in mind it’s 5yrs old so some of the recommended indexers and services might have gone off line, but the general info is still true.
*Edit, I know I’m breaking the first rule of Usenet!
There’s a pretty good video on YouTube that details it’s failure. The Russians also had something similar and I think they where more successful at it. youtu.be/pW0eZRoQ86g?si=4JCqtCmS1mMLDOve
I think you brought up a good point in that Microsoft conditions people to expect a certain behavior from their PC. Some of that is ease of use at there expense of privacy, forced unavoidable updates, and individual software solutions that handles their respective updates.
I bounce around a lot, mainly between Qtile and Awesome WM because I like how it handles multiple monitors. You should check it out, there’s loads of premade configs on GitHub.