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.