They do have a lot of cool new stuff but MS is still the same old MS. Tried doing some RAID driver stuff the other day on a Win 2019 test box and wanted to get hit by a train. I have spent so many years in open source land that I forgot how painful it is to get help with obscure errors in Microsoft world. Installing a fresh OS takes what feels like forever, especially account provisioning and unchecking the dozen (literally) trackers/cortana/etc garbage. Simple things feel slow. The UI is clunky, and half the stuff you use is going ot be using a circa-last-last generation UI toolkit anyway so it all looks out of place.
They do have a lot of cool new stuff but MS is still the same old MS. Tried doing some RAID driver stuff the other day on a Win 2019 test box and wanted to get hit by a train. I have spent so many years in open source land that I forgot how painful it is to get help with obscure errors in Microsoft world. Installing a fresh OS takes what feels like forever, especially account provisioning and unchecking the dozen (literally) trackers/cortana/etc garbage. Simple things feel slow. The UI is clunky, and half the stuff you use is going ot be using a circa-last-last generation UI toolkit anyway so it all looks out of place.