When I run Windows 10 Professional at home (which I still occasionally do) I get excellent reliability. The moment it hits heavily locked down networked office laptops is when it starts going bad, but to be fair to Microsoft I'm pretty sure that's more the interaction of complex software with a massive amount of commodity hardware in configurations that are way to varied for all combinations to ever be tested. HP being especially bad and Lenovo especially good in this regard.
I do find myself occasionally wishing that the Surface range had the same hardware as my M1 Air as I'm still more productive on Windows, partly due to the UI/UX (when it is consistent which isn't everywhere) being better, and partly because it's just a whole lot easier to keep my hands on the keyboard and away from the mouse/trackpad than it is on Mac OS.
Whilst I do Python, Node, Go, Ruby, etc., I've been a .Net developer since 2001 and in many ways (going back to DOS in the 80s) Microsoft are responsible for me having a good career. I'm not blind to their rapaciousness, but I am grateful too.
When I run Windows 10 Professional at home (which I still occasionally do) I get excellent reliability. The moment it hits heavily locked down networked office laptops is when it starts going bad, but to be fair to Microsoft I'm pretty sure that's more the interaction of complex software with a massive amount of commodity hardware in configurations that are way to varied for all combinations to ever be tested. HP being especially bad and Lenovo especially good in this regard.
I do find myself occasionally wishing that the Surface range had the same hardware as my M1 Air as I'm still more productive on Windows, partly due to the UI/UX (when it is consistent which isn't everywhere) being better, and partly because it's just a whole lot easier to keep my hands on the keyboard and away from the mouse/trackpad than it is on Mac OS.
Whilst I do Python, Node, Go, Ruby, etc., I've been a .Net developer since 2001 and in many ways (going back to DOS in the 80s) Microsoft are responsible for me having a good career. I'm not blind to their rapaciousness, but I am grateful too.