@cdp1337 personally, I've wasted 15 years of my life trying to make #Windows useable and the main regret I have is not switching to #Linux 100% 5 years earlier...
- I can't do Windows at all because no amount of "pain money" will compensate for the damage it'll take to my mental health.
I'd rather not do #IT at all than suffer through Windows.
- And yes, shit's that slow and hard, I've seen companies buying ~ €200k (MSRP which obviously noone pays) in low-core count EPYC servers just to have #MSSQL be somewhat reasonably fast.
Not to mention #Microsoft's #Licensing is just absurd as they demand that businesses license their garbage not for the Cores/Threads they'll assign to the Software, but for every single core the #Proxmox or #ESXi cluster has, even if it's impossible for said Software to run on those at the same time because "#WindowsServer" doesn't even support multi-node clustering or fault-tolerance at all.
- I could at least reason this as a price to pay for it if it actually bought something to the table worth it...
But it just doesn't!
And yes, Windows does require reboot orgies to update...
- Why else do you think it's less pain and frustration to use #nLite and #iPXE to build unattended install images and just reinstall all Windows #Desktops everytime a #ServicePack gets released?
It's way faster that way.
- Also Microsoft's own tool for that, #WAIK, really sucks ass and is a bigger resource hog than a "Full Installation" of #VisualStudio Enterprise Edition!
Again: I'd rather spin my own distro from scratch and daily drive it than ever touching Windows again!!!
