After porting ZeroTier to Windows years ago I then had to merge some helpful person’s pull request to remove a lot of profanity that didn’t look professional.

I discovered things about the Windows driver, installer, and networking subsystems and APIs that are best described by pinhead from Hellraiser: “I have such sights to show you.”

No other OS comes close. Definitely not the fruit company one or even commercial Unix (yes Solaris and AIX still live). Most Linux package management is a tire fire but the OS is pretty nice.

I blame backward compatibility coupled with what seems to have been a series of fits of overengineering that now must be carried along as boat anchors.