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the windows UX is where you are periodically get a random encounter to solve a puzzle of rubix cube complexity, except it's using the user interface and it may not have a solution. at any point you can bypass the random encounter puzzle by hard booting the system and losing whatever unsaved work was still open.
i think one of the things that finally got to me was just how long a windows reboot was taking. not just to get to the desktop, but to be able to do whatever it was i was at the computer to do. and every time i couldn't solve the random windows puzzle, i was doing it. staring at the dumb spinning dots, waiting.
by contrast, my linux systems went from off to desktop in about 47-51 seconds.
I miss my Amiga 1200 with an external hard drive and 68030 accelerator card clocked at a whopping 50 MHz. A cold boot took around 8 seconds before the system was usable. Hell, even booting from floppy took no more than about 38 seconds. (Yes, I timed this shit, and yes, I still remember it from 30 years ago.)