[af3d]

Really? Windows2000 (which was based on NT) hit the sweet spot for me. Anything earlier than that seemed too buggy, and from there onward just seemed to devolve into a bloated mess of unrequested "features". (The very reason why I have been using Linux for 20+ years now as a matter of fact.) But yeah to be completely fair I suppose not everything they have produced since has been crap. There have been some innovations here and there...

[pjmlp]

Linux has enough unrequested features as well, and the distributions are a fragmentation mess.

20 years ago, we thought eventually either GNOME or KDE would win, instead became even more fragmented, across all layers.