We probably agree on an objective level. I would agree with you that nearly all of it works nearly all of the time.

But that's my idea of a nightmare - when things are suboptimal and you're often scrambling for solutions on a second-class platform. When I say "often" I don't mean "every day", but in my experience it happened enough to make me swear off Rails on Windows forever.

Of course maybe 5.x is different. My experience was in the late 3.x and early 4.x days