My biggest thing with Windows is that it chooses maintenance during times I'm working and thats annoying. Like why are you doing a random malware check or update while I'm rendering or doing something important. If W11 has the ability to fine tune that I'm all ears on upgrading.
Also I caught it corrupting a disk that has important backups. I forced it to fix its own error but no lie, the drive was only connected to Windows for months and hasn't been unmounted often.
They keep wanting to reinvent the wheel, meanwhile software devs that might make Linux ports are going to be pushed away because Linux will never land on any standard it will always be a moving target.
Meanwhile Windows and Apple stay pretty consistent...
Also I was more ranting on the future of Linux (which I am worried about), Linux at one point was amazing and useful 100%. It's these modern design decisions like forced adoption of wayland and the pushing out of Russian, cis white men devs that I think is causing the OS to go backwards.
So the crux of the convo is desktop Linux and what are you accomplishing with it. So I'm coming more from a content creator perspective. Not gamer/webdev which is usually the haunting ground of Linux diehards. Remove wine and the web browser and what do you really have??
Honestly I have a 32-bit float wav of the render of my deleted project, I can just sample it and remix it in a new session and boom, got the release and I don't have to waste hours trying to get the synth patch just right and fx chain just right to recreate the sound.
I think my best move aside from DAW and vst plugin choices will be the frens that have experience and me heeding their advice. The EDM world is big and scary sometimes because competition is super stiff and peoples tastes and trends are very mercurial.
At least the fedi is not a echo chamber and we have a diverse group of people. My main gripe is people hardly venture outside of anime cooming and politics. For a while there was a Warhammer 40k instance and that was a breathe of fresh air. I'd like to see a car racing instance, a hunting and fishing instance, a music producers instance, there is so much more to life than arguing politics or jerking it to 8000 year old lolis.
TL:DR I got sick of constantly sinking time into getting what should be normal standard things working properly. I want to have a life. I love old Linux for having basically solved that problem but I hate new wave Linux for trying to reintroduce it.
I think the breakdown in my frustration happened long ago when the Arch Linux install process began to become unrecognizable after a couple of years. Also at what point do people start putting a value on their free time vs "just trust me bro and follow this lengthy github guide to get your trivial feature working that was working out of the box years before".