Windows is indeed an execrable shitshow. Every aspect of it assaults the user with incompetence or outright hostility. First is the endless badgering to log in

Windows is indeed an execrable shitshow. Every aspect of it assaults the user with incompetence or outright hostility. First is the endless badgering to log in, LOG IN, LOGGGG INNNNN with an asinine Microsoft account. If you can tolerate that and actually get the OS running, you're wading through a wonderland of UI regressions and defects. The default hiding and disabling of options is infuriating. Try showing content from your Windows computer on a TV, for example. You plug your HDMI cable in, and you can select the TV as an external monitor in a reasonably logical manner. Great. But wait... the sound is still coming from the laptop speakers. So you go to Sound in the system settings. Click on the drop-down for available devices. NOPE; the only device is the laptop speakers. So you start hunting through "advanced settings" or some such BS. And buried in there you find the TV, detected all along, but DISABLED BY DEFAULT. WHY??? Not auto-selecting it for output is one thing, but why is it DISABLED and HIDDEN? This is the kind of shit I have to talk my parents through over the phone so they can watch their PBS subscription on their TV. The sheer stupidity of today's Windows UI isn't just annoying, but it's demoralizing to everyday people who blame THEMSELVES for not being "computer-savvy" or slow learners. NO; it's Microsoft's monumental design incompetence and user-hostile behavior. Microsoft doesn't get the relentless excoriation it deserves for its miserable user experience. There's no excuse for it.