Comment by emeril

I'm not really a dev so I've made an art of going through all the minutiae of changing the terrible default GUI back to windows xp or so which makes it a decent consistent experience (mostly open shell + 7+ Taskbar Tweaker + manually recreate quicklaunch + remove all pinned apps)

Then I spend some time disabling ALL of the updates as they generally do more harm than good

Then I make sure to install directory opus...

Then windows isn't too bad especially when I have no choice but to use it for my work (whereas all of my colleagues have constant problems with borked updates and inconsistent interfaces)

to be fair, I bought a laptop with windows 8 ten years ago and I immediately formatted it and manually installed windows 7 on it though it was a tad tough to find drivers as it was a cheapo consumer laptop)