Slowness of the system that increase with time since last reinstallation of the OS, dll conflicts (you also have a Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell), corrupted registry, conflicting drivers, configurations, libraries.

I am not saying anything controversial, it is one among the main complaints about windows, together with worse resource management and less general stability.

That's the reason you find windows for accountants, but no one uses windows for complex systems that have to be stable, reliable and maintainable.

Many casual users live with these issues, many move to mac, few move to linux

Often the conversation here feels like the commenter hasn't used Windows since XP. I use Windows and Linux daily and I think most commenters are wrong with their trash talk of Windows but right with their prop talk of Linux.

If you install a better os, everything is accurately and centrally managed, making maintenance much more easy.

This is so true, especially if you're doing any development. Everything just builds from the package before it more or less. So you don't end up with duplicates of the same code and end up with /programfileA/blah.whatever being different from /proframfileB/blah.whatever and fucking around for hours cause 'the file is updated, and it's pointed to the right file. Why does it say it's not'. Until you figure out it wasn't pointed to the right file/package and you kick yourself for missing such a stupid mistake. Ask me how I know lol

I unfortunately have to deal with it daily at work... With a premium laptop that cost thousands, and it is extremely less performant than much smaller and older machines with linux (I use linux at work as well).

I am not saying anything controversial. It is literally the reason why windows professionally is used for accountants, but it is practically never used for tasks that require performances, reliability, stability and long term maintainability.

Most casual users live with these issues, many move to mac, few move to linux. Victims of corporate IT like me must justify the budget to avoid the standard laptop and get the overpriced piece of extremely powerful hardware to have a daily experience slightly better than a raspberry pi running on respbian. Because outlook...