[markstock]

On the other side, I am a lifelong Linux user, and even with advanced LLMs, trying to get Microsoft Windows to behave sanely takes hours every month for years on end (thanks, day job). Things Linux figured out in 2003 are still magic or completely undoable on Windows.

[IshKebab]

Not my experience. I installed the IoT version of Windows 11 and have changed exactly one setting (put the start menu back on the left where it rightfully belongs). Nothing else has required any changes at all to get sanity, which is more than you can say for Mac (which requires half a dozen extra apps to make it same - SteerMouse, Karabina, Spectacle, etc.), or Linux, where the UI is mostly sane - if you're using KDE anyway - but you're beset by bugs and jank.

And don't say "it works for me". We know some people get very lucky with Linux and stuff just works. In my experience the typical experience is that stuff works much better on Windows than Linux.

E.g. something Windows figured out in 2000 - what happens when your system is low on ram or overloaded? Simple! Press ctrl-alt-del, it will pause other apps and allow you to open the task manager and choose one to kill.

On Linux? There's no task manager in the ctrl-alt-del menu (on KDE anyway), and even if there was it isn't a specially privileged UI so it wouldn't respond. Running low on RAM? No problem we'll just kill a random process and if that doesn't work (it usually doesn't), completely freeze and then hard-reboot. Yeay.

[hootz]

The Task Manager that many times also stopped responding or was permanently stuck behind a frozen full screen game?

On Linux, KDE has the plasma System Monitor, and if you can't use it for some reason you can switch your entire session to a TTY with CTRL+ALT+F2 and kill any process you want.

[IshKebab]

> you can switch your entire session to a TTY with CTRL+ALT+F2 and kill any process you want.

How intuitive. That's often disabled, and I've definitely had machines that were so frozen even that didn't work. I guess sysrq keys might have worked but if you're seriously going to suggest that you haven't understood the problem.

> The Task Manager that many times also stopped responding or was permanently stuck behind a frozen full screen game?

Hasn't happened once for me for as long as I can remember.

In fairness Linux has been pretty solid for me too after upgrading to 128GB of RAM and 64GB of swap. But I never needed to do that on Windows.

[thewebguyd]

> Hasn't happened once for me for as long as I can remember.

I've had it happen to me, but the last time it did was probably around ~2017 or so on spinning rust. Fast SSDs make it a non-issue now.