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lets face it, w10 is an operating system that grew up from DOS via a sort of inflexible GUI, at it's core it's [still] designed for one person to do one thing at a time.  yeah it sort of multitasks, but not really, still too simple (and it happens often) for one app to cripple the entire machine.  In old speak it's broken: (internal) task scheduling is a series of hacks on hacks on a single stream even with multi core/multi CPU's, the network stack is implementation is, well it's bass ackward, the file system fails basic multi user tasking requirements, the kernel / user separation is hard coded crap that's easy to bypass and sadly sometimes necessary to get hings done as well as a goldred diamond mine for hackers/virii - it's not a true multitasking o/s, it's a hack on a single user single task base core.

linux is 90% there as a properly structured o/s in all respects, it does manage true multi tasking, a proper network (in fact nearly all hardware) stack, it's 95% there in properly segregating kernel from user (rarely needed except for o/s management), mostly it knows it's just an o/s, not an o/s plus some parts of some application - in particular network and other hardware management / processing is not 'integrated' into the core, it's modularised (not a bad trade off).  Internet is not built into the O/S, it's no right to be there, ever - something ms completely elepahnted and they still stick with doing that - WTF!!.

Summary: windows is not a proper O/S, linux mostly is, and what that means the wrongness of the former is becoming a genuine issue on today's decently powerful hardware.

something else I encountered during trying both environments:
w7 and w10 guests (with vs2013 and vs2017 installed - accessing source on a shared drive:
- linux host (virtual box): very smooth, simple, well balanced.  Hardly notice it's on a vm, except all those snapshot features and other goodies you get.
- w10 host (vbox, hyper, vmware): sluggish, troublesome, not smooth, almost daily need to re-tweak things UAC and other w10 stupidity kept biting, (worse than mosqitoes...),  like a never ending clown show, a really sad clown show.  How to get anything done?

Bonus: w10 running in a vm with a "host-only network" - surprisingly happy as a pig in sh*t.  w10 (native and as guest) get's wonky when it has no network at all, but give it a [it thinks] full network to talk to (i.e. with DNS ect) - even when it can't find microsloth.com seems perhaps it just thinks that mommy is not answering because she's sleeping so never mind so all is still ok in the world - if it's go no network it knows it's alone.

(double bonus: w10 updates? do off-line, i.e. when you want to do it - full control is returned to owner.  Many instructions on the net - so much better than letting w10 look after itself - I mean, particularly as a developer than needs full control over their system.  what a completely stupid joke the current w10 update system STILL is.