Yeah I only learned that through trial and error. I didn't understand how bad that screwed me. Things would change on boot and I would have no idea why. Sometimes really strange bugs would happen like apps would full screen with no way to undo it.

From Windows 95 to 10 I have generally enjoyed the OS and they do a great job with the experience. With the more recent direction of 10 and 11 I am fully out and switched to Linux. I had realized beyond the privacy issues that Windows now has, it also behaves closer to bleeding edge Linux distros where random components of your OS will update and just be different one day.

So I switched back to Linux and had the realization that if I didn't want to deal with bleeding edge updates on Linux, I didn't have to.

Beyond that Linux without the insanity of unstable releases or rolling updates can still be quirky in very unexpected ways.