Comment by fuzzy2

I’d like to highlight a few points that are mostly not about Windows.

> * windows don't remember their previous position on multi-screens.

Not an OS concern. Most applications do remember, by the way.

> * terminal beeps at you on every tab with more than one option, always have to keep sound muted.

Windows terminal doesn’t have a bell. WSL does, as does macOS or anything Linux/UNIX really. You can disable it of course. Google "wsl disable bell".

Either way, nothing new or objectively bad.

> * no idea whether that's win10, spotify or thinkpad software, but hitting a media key produces a NON DISMISSIBLE big overlay for spotify that just hangs there for a good 10 seconds and blocks the stuff I want to click.

That’s mostly Spotify. It can be disabled in settings. Windows only shows the volume "slider", which is gone after 5 seconds

* some older Logitech mouse I connect has buggy assignment of forward/back keys - does a completely random operation instead. Windows doesn't seem to have a GUI-way to set this stuff up

Nothing is "random". Except perhaps when the device is broken. Mouse buttons 1-5 have been well-defined for 10+ years now.

> * terminal has no tabs and crappy colors and I don't wanna go down the rabbit hole of trying to integrate WSL with a non-default terminal emulator. I've installed the spring update, won't touch october one for a while at least.

Yes, it sucks. You can either enable SSH and SSH into WSL or just use wsltty (which offers bell options!).

> * there's no integration of WSL & windows GUI layer.

That’s a given. WSL is only for developers.