Somehow after installing clean and using the system for less than a day I got into a cycle of BSoDs (maybe caused by a buggy RAID driver?). This required a reinstall.
Sometimes my monitors go blank and won't come back on. I still can't get a second external monitor working. I had trouble with the installers for various MS products, which produced completely useless error messages (e.g. unclickable URLs in dialog boxes that, when typed in, redirect to a generic marketing page). The standard process for finding and installing third-party utilities is a bad joke.
My point isn't about these specific problems, it's that the idea that Linux is uniquely flakey and unsatisfactory won't fly.
(I know the hardware is OK because I was using it with Linux and no problems a month ago.)
1, Copy and paste with the command box is a huge pain on windows.
2, You have to have focus on the window to scroll (my Kubuntu means I can hover over a window and use the scroll wheel, its so intuitive when work on one document and reading another).
3, Windows Explorers URL area is selected from the keyboard shortcut Alt-D as opposed to IE/Firefox/Nautilus/Dolphin/Chrome which is Ctrl-L.
4, Updates on windows can take half a day.
5, Configurations are split between a magical windows registry and the users profile folder. Outlooks nk2 file is an awesome example.
6, The black box problem. I have found a bug in a windows component, however I have no way of getting a fix or knowing if someone is looking at it. All I got last time was that my report will be forwarded to the appropriate team.
7, Painfully slow start up
8, Reboots after updates.
9, Error messages which don't explain much and problem helpers which provide nothing extra.
10, Windows Help Documentation!!!
11, MSDN which is little more than reformatted header files. How many complete (working) examples of code are there in the MSDN. Now compare that to the Qt documentation.
