Windows and Android have this attitude where they decide how you want to use your device and block customisation. And the fact that they feel entitled to be able to change how your device looks and feels without warning or permission is something that’s deeply uncomfortable to me. There’s also this feeling of not knowing what my device is actually doing, and how much of my data it is actually collecting.
With Windows, there’s also a lot of small papercuts that make it annoying to use (and that my Windows friends don’t seem to understand):
Lack of middle click paste.
Lack of the ability to drag windows using “alt”.
You can’t turn off the window previews in the task bar.
You can’t disconnect from a wired network connection from the connections list.
Sometimes the computer just restarts on its own for fun.
Finding settings is a pain because they keep adding new settings menus.
Whatever garbage the start menu is doing nowadays.
Installing software and drivers is a pain.
The attitude that you have to download (or buy!) third party software for core features that should be included in the OS.
It doesn’t support my keyboard layout, and the editor for making new layouts is terrible.
The bitlocker password entry doesn’t respect your keyboard layout. Or clear the entry when you get it wrong.
Windows licenses are a pain to manage.
Managing the bootloader just sucks.
The registry just kinda sucks compared to dconf and/or text config files.
Font rendering is ugly, imo.
I don’t care about edge, fuck off with that shit.
I can’t change the volume by using the scroll wheel.
Launching a pinned app on the task bar causes all the other pinned apps to shift around so I misclick.
Device letters are not stable if you add or remove devices.
It just resets settings sometimes, because why not?
It can’t be installed to a partition that isn’t the first partition on the disk. This is not mentioned anywhere, nor is the error useful.
It’s just bad for developing on, due to lack of tooling.
… Whew I ranted for a while there, didn’t I? Yeah, I dual boot Windows for the games that either don’t run under protonwine or the devs want to add a rootkit to.