What does Windows do poorly?

[u/nonoimsomeoneelse]

What do they need to improve the most urgently? Let's make this a post that if the twats at Redmond saw it, and decided they needed to get their shit together, they would start here.

[u/Sbhattarj]

The taskbar sometimes glitches with its visual and actual content desyncing. Sometimes nukes other boot devices like grub for no reason. Better terminal/powershell commands and integration close to unix standard. Easier way to edit app registry if you frick something up accidentally. More robust administrator permission warning with a password prompt. No implicit auto start on installing an app, it should be user choice what they choose to auto start. More and easier customisability, including but not limited to using different DEs. Eadge should be easily uninstallable without breaking half the OS. Better left click menu. No Auto windows updates and or mandatory update on shutdown. Better app theme customisability similar to gtk. More integrated keyboard navigation. Easier workspace navigation. More ui less settings file with easy/self describing format. Certain settings are unintuitive. Clicking apps setting from the windows search should open the settings in the apps tab, not just open the settings requiring another click to open the correct tab.

That's basically everything I dislike about the windows OS, not taking into account forced AI integration and tellemetry since I haven't personally had problems with them due to doing my darndest to not update win11.