Windows 11 is "alright" after they fixed the issue where a selected button is the exact same colour as an unselected button, however it is the only OS I've ever used where explorer (the thing that controls the desktop at the most basic level) crashes at least 4 times a day at random intervals
Windows 11's Explorer is one of the least stable things I've ever seen.
Sometimes it fails silently and just locks you out of itself and REFUSES TO RELAUNCH
For such a core OS feature, its usability is absolutely dismal. The thing that controls all your OS features is the one thing you CANNOT HAVE FAIL, and it should recover seamlessly if it does fail. Fucking it up is a COLOSSAL problem i have to deal with on the daily, and I hate it so much.
this has been a major problem since... well, i can only confirm windows nt 3.5 or so. but yeah, basically it's always been this way. i inevitably end up hard cycling my machine because exploder has crashed so hard it won't even given me access to the shutdown button. lol
Continually blown away by the fact that Windows Explorer would rather spend fifteen minutes trying to load an inaccessible device or network share and then crash your entire machine instead of just giving a pop-up error saying "connection timed out, there might be an issue with this device" after a predetermined amount of time.
I guess the "reason" it keeps trying forever without ever giving up is the support some insanely ancient standards and corporate networks that might take actual minutes to load things? But that kind of functionality could easily be relegated to the Enterprise edition or some modifiable Registry key.
There's no reason my SATA Blu-ray drive should be able to hang my entire computer and force a cold reboot.
And I'm on Windows 10.