> Windows is such a mess! It’s sort of shocking how much of a mess it is. Desktop Linux is often criticized for this, but Windows is much worse, somehow! It’s r

> Windows is such a mess! It’s sort of shocking how much of a mess it is. Desktop Linux is often criticized for this, but Windows is much worse, somehow! It’s really inconsistent. Half of it is “new” UI and half of it is old Win32/GDI type UI I've been daily driving Linux (at least on my machine, work is unfortunately MacOS) for a year after 20+ years on Windows. Almost entirely GNOME, I recently switched to KDE for variable refresh rate support (it's easy enough to make KDE behave like GNOME). I had to boot into Windows 11 this weekend, after not using it for a few months, and it was a very jarring and unpleasant experience. But it's not because of inconsistent UI which, to be fair, has seen some rapid progress. Before switching to Linux I very rarely had to visit the old control panel. I can't actually put my finger on why, maybe it feels half-baked compared to GNOME/KDE? It just feels awful to use, within the first 10 seconds. Printers are significantly more reliable with Linux. WSL is fucking fantastic. I feel as though year of the Linux desktop is on the horizon, it's definitely a possibility.