alt Hacker NewsI wonder why! Has your workplace installed weird junk on the machine which is gumming it up? Are you using some set of configuration options that microsoft doesn't regularly check?
My experience of windows is that it works pretty well these days. But I don't develop on windows - I just use it for entertainment (steam, vlc, etc). So there's probably a lot of edge cases that I'm not hitting.
It wasn't ever different when I ran windows on my personal computers, although granted that was back in 8.1. 8.1 was just bad for a variety of reasons, but it definitely still had the rot problem.
The latest in my saga of Windows being annoying is applications just randomly killing themselves when I'm not looking. I don't reboot my work computer because I have far too much precious stuff open.
But, every other day or so, an application or two will mysteriously disappear from my taskbar. Silently. I never catch it, then I get the "hey did you see this email??"
Why no, no I did not. Outlook committed suicide at some point and I'm not pocket watching the windows taskbar. My mistake.
For a while I thought I just hallucinated me closing the application, but I don't close applications, like, ever.
To put into perspective, my work has a policy which forcefully reboots windows once every 14 days. It helps, but not much, because by day 2-3 it's already breaking down. My Debian machine has an uptime of a few hundred days. I legitimately still have applications open from last year.
Maybe I use my computer like a psychopath, or maybe my expectations are too high, but I don't consider windows to take care of itself. Its the most babying-an-OS I ever have to do. iOS and Android are much better as well.