(this is a rant)
So I'm using Windows for a program. I have my work files on USB and I 'move' them onto the Windows hard drive, work on them and when I'm done I again 'move' them back to the USB. I've been doing this for two days now. When I try to 'move' files back to the USB, I can't because Windows says something is using them. But there's nothing there! All of the programs using the directories and files have been closed. I tried killing stuff randomly in the Task Manager but it doesn't work. So I reboot. Yesterday and today. Then it lets me 'move' the files to USB.
And then people ask me "why don't you use Windows, trigglux?" "It has support for all the software you want, trigglux." "Hey, trigglux, look at the cool WSL! It runs Linux! On Windows! Isn't that cool, trigglux?"
Oh, and I had to install gvim because Windows doesn't belive in editors. I was using Notepad yesterday and my life just isn't worth it.
And one last thing. When you open the Start Menu (on Windows 10) and want to scroll down, you can't. You can either use the mouse scroll wheel, which is slow, or else you have to position your cursor over the scroll bar, WAIT FOR THE SCROLL BAR TO EXPAND, and only then can you scroll. You waste a precious second, completely breaking your stride, for a simple stupid UI element.
Not to mention that use of a GUI file explorer is just NOT fast. In fact, everything on Windows is built around this idea a person is going to accomplish a single small task - never string multiple small tasks together to accomplish a greater whole - and so Windows tries to turn completing that single small task into an experience. Ah, look at me, I'm using a computer! Such great improvements in productivity! I could be using a pen and paper, but with the wonders of modern technology, I accomplish the same thing, only faster. Never mind I could be accomplishing completely novel kinds of tasks, if we had better software, we're still stuck in the sixties when we think about human work! Now if only it could talk to me and tell me it loves me. Oh wait, but it can! "Cortana, tell me you love me." <_<
Whereas on Linux, on the command line, and with multiple virtual desktops, you can easily shuffle multiple parallel workloads while only vaguely aware there's some kind of an operating system enabling that. Not to mention grep, sed, pipes and text files give you about 80% of the functionality of a database. Unix is really hard to improve on, because it's so good. Truth be told, many desktop environments on Linux aren't built for supporting all that, but there are a bunch that can be made to work seamlessly. The key question is does your desktop environment animate anything or does it just display what you want. If it animates (like GNOME) it's stuck in the sixties. If it doesn't (dwm without a DE), it's 21st century.
And the entire UI on Windows is white, which is killing my eyes. You can turn on "dark mode" but it only darkens the window borders.
Trully, Microsoft should discontinue Windows and start shipping a Linux distro. They'd be doing the entire world a favor.