Oh, and to address the "why Windows" thing: because it works, generally speaking. All the device drivers you need to talk to 8K displays, boarding pass printer

Oh, and to address the "why Windows" thing: because it works, generally speaking. All the device drivers you need to talk to 8K displays, boarding pass printers, passport scanners, et cetera are actually there. Not necessarily good, but they're at least, like, available and sort-of tested. Then, the "centralized IT management" story is actually quite decent for Windows. You have AD (no, sorry, Entra Ultra-Secure, or whatever it will be called next week), group policies, deployment kits, kiosk lock-down modes, controlled updates[1], and what-have you. All of that is, ehm, sort-of lacking on other platforms. Actually, the worst that can happen to a well-meaning IT person is having to deploy and manage some proprietary "ultra-secure" Android abomination, especially after the single source of that goes inevitably bankrupt... ([1] Except, of course, when the outsourced elite security ninjas feel the need to chase down dangling pointers in kernel mode in realtime. They, of course, get to do whatever they want because, hey, National Security!)