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Let's be honest, very few people who talk about how much they hate Microsoft will even consider alternatives
I used to help maintain a Linux distro, and there is a level of polish Windows has that I feel cannot be reached by the FOSS ecosystem due the resources dumped into hiring dedicated teams at MS. Microsoft has tons of money. I'm sad about the direction of windows, but it generally works pretty well for how it's designed (which is in some cases awful).
I agree with your point, but I never would have thought of describing Windows as "polished".
It's a sliding scale
Sure. I could accept hearing "Windows is more polished than most Linux distro's". But to say blankly that Windows is polished is crazy talk. It's jank as balls. Its got like 3 totally discrete and independent UI frameworks for the menus operating in parallel, and somehow none of them provide all the functionality you would need, have to mix and match them.
That's just a single example. I could rant for hours.
please do, i LOVE long rants about windows :]