[amlib]

>Generally unpolished UX and poor UI design (even by Windows standards…) is the second reason.

Sure Linux has plenty of it's own issues, but nowadays it's Windows that has degraded so much on the UX and UI department that I would dare say it is inferior to KDE and specially inferior to Gnome.

When you first boot into Windows 11 you realize that all programs sourced from microsoft itself are all based on inconsistent UX and UI. No program "skin" look alike, no button look similar. No modal dialog with a simple yes no question look "proper". Compare that to Windows 95 where everything was 1000x more consistent, it's like night and day. Even the stuff that uses the latest and greatest internal toolkit (that will surely be deprecated in a year) have that plain "flat" ui taken to the extreme that I at least find boring as hell.

And then you have to deal with two control panels to configure the system, a legacy they've been trying to move away since the win 8 days, with some dialogs that came up straight from windows 95 and windows 3.1 that still has the UX from those days... it's like living in an apartheid state, where each department at microsoft has to battle for their dear existence and fail at cooperating with each other.

And yes, I do feel smug when I realize a 3 Trillion dollar company fails at things that the open source community been nailing more and more every year. I guess linux is a cathartic experience nowadays. Can't get enough of it!