>Microsoft has teams doing boring whole-system benchmarking and holistic optimization. Their UX and QA teams, on the other hand, are absolutely nowhere to be f

>Microsoft has teams doing boring whole-system benchmarking and holistic optimization. Their UX and QA teams, on the other hand, are absolutely nowhere to be found. They've arguably been on a permanent vacation since the release of Windows 8. - I can't yet re-open all my windows that I had open when I shut down my computer in Windows (by the time I've logged in on my KDE system all of the windows I want are already open and ready for use, much like they do on a Mac). - I can't open an Administrator command prompt with a single button when navigating a file structure in Windows. In Dolphin I always have a console as part of the window. - I have to accept updates when Windows thinks it's time for me to accept them, and also have to deal with telemetry. These updates have undesirable effects on the system because they can flat out uninstall programs, and re-install some programs you may have removed. - Ads for Office, Candy Crush, and some other things are pre-installed. - The search in the Start Menu is non-deterministic and does a bunch of other stuff I don't want it to do by default, like searching the web. Open applications do not clearly show they're open (they act like the OS X dock) by default, though to be fair it was Windows 7 that introduced that default feature. - I only have to search one Control Panel for settings, and the themeing options are better in KDE. Dark mode wasn't done as lazily as it is in Windows and the visual theme of the system is far superior. In my experience, Linux boots up and runs faster than Windows does, but even if it was slightly slower the performance hit would honestly be worth it simply because the system is so much nicer to use and its development actually bothers to align with user goals.