I must just be really good then. I have been running Windows since version 2. I skipped the Win9X generation in favor of the NT branch, so maybe that explains my lack of complaints. I have built and supported hundreds of Windows workstations in the past decades and just didn't have that many problems.
Look this is really the wrong thread for this discussion, so I'm going to stop now. I really don't care what kind of computer or OS you (general you) use.
I've been using Windows, MacOS and Linux for many years, and have had similar experiences. The differences were always negligible to me, in terms of overall usability.
From Mac OS System 7 up through the first couple versions of OSX in the early-2000s, Macs were every bit as crashy, hangy and temperamental as Windows-based PCs. Apple was just better at marketing their product as the more user-friendly alternative, and portraying Windows as a clunky, faulty system.
While it's true that Apple took measures to make Macs easier to use, their main drawbacks manifested in terms of flexibility, and their lack of multitasking was a major hindrance. Macs may have had a simpler and more elegant UI, but good luck getting those things to play nice on a non-Mac network.
On the other hand, Windows was more universal and flexible, but its UI was a bit of a trainwreck. Microsoft would add all kinds of new features with each release, but bury them deep within layers and layers of menus and dialog boxes.
Linux was always far more stable, and the variety of UIs was nice, but everything looked and felt at least 5 years out-of-date, the OS was a pain in the ass to install and configure, and its hardware support was unpredictable at best. I remember installing Linux on a laptop in like 2000 and having to go out and buy a PCMCIA modem because the internal one was a "Winmodem" that Linux couldn't support. Soon afterward, I got cable Internet and ditched modems altogether.
By the time the mid-aughts rolled around, all 3 major OSs were running on the same Intel x86 platform and had attained passable stability. The Mac had finally achieved true multitasking ability, and has the added advantage of a UNIX-based microkernel. Windows XP struck a nice balance between usability, adaptability and power. Linux came into its own as a worthy competitor in the general-use desktop market.
Nowadays, the usability differences between Mac and Windows are pretty small. Microsoft's obsession with excessive features and functionality appears to be a boat anchor around their neck, though. I've had to repair lots of systems where a security update or Service Pack borked certain apps, or even the whole OS. Macintosh, on the other hand, has top-notch hardware and a less bloated UI, but the sale price is at least 170%-200% of the average cost of the same machine from another manufacturer (unless you're talking Sony VAIO or something). It's kind of ridiculous.
These days I have all 3 OSs, mostly for compatibility assurance purposes. I do most of my day-to-day stuff in Linux, occasionally use Mac for some graphics work and use Windows mostly just for playing computer games.
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