Windows isn't bad as an OS. It's just like Mac in that it just needs a handful of tweaks to make it usable. The underlying system is much more cluttered thoug

Windows isn't bad as an OS. It's just like Mac in that it just needs a handful of tweaks to make it usable. The underlying system is much more cluttered though , which can get overwhelming at first. But it's done mostly because Windows has an insane level of legacy support, being able to still run basically any program made in the past couple decades. The same goes with hardware. It's the Ak-47 of OS's. Windows laptops are another story, and there are a lot of issues with seemingly good hardware (like well reviewed Dells). Usually fans are either running continuously, issues with going to or staying asleep, and the classic issues with Windows Modern Standby (close laptop, put in bag, take out drained and very hot laptop later). Personally, I always hibernate instead of sleep since sleep is rarely reliable. It's excellent on gaming pc's though. For development, Windows is generally pretty good these days. Windows Terminal is as good as Gnome Terminal or iTerm2, and WSL2 gets you a linux environment.