r/WindowsSucks

Microsoft used to be a great company. Windows XP was simple, light, and easy to understand. Windows 7 was the last “normal” OS — clean UI, fewer settings, and if you didn’t understand something, you could find it on YouTube in 2 minutes.

Then everything went downhill.

Windows 8/8.1 was basically a phone OS forced onto a PC. The start menu was nonsense and nobody asked for it.

Windows 10 is where the slow performance started. If you didn’t strip the nonsense, your RAM was gone. Back then people had 4–8GB RAM, and Windows 10 ate half of it on idle.

Now Windows 11 (2026) is the most nonsense OS Microsoft ever made.

Normal people can’t delete anything. Power users can remove Edge, disable 200+ services, kill telemetry, fix the UI, and clean the system. But normal users? They’re stuck.

Microsoft didn’t think about them at all.

– Settings are mixed everywhere

– UI is inconsistent

– Everything is locked

– Edge comes back after updates

– RAM usage on idle is 3–4GB for nothing

– 300+ processes running on a fresh install

– Handles/threads/processes exploding even when nothing is open

– GPU drivers install useless HDMI audio drivers

– Performance is a joke in 2026

– Windows became a “product OS” instead of a tool for people

– Ads, cloud, AI, bloat everywhere

On Linux, if something annoys you — you remove it. Done.

On Windows, you need to fight the OS just to use your own computer.

Windows in 2026 = meme.

Linux in 2026 = remember commands because nobody builds a simple UI for everything.

On today’s Windows or Linux — what are the daily issues you still can’t fix?

What’s stopping you from switching:

• Windows → Linux

• Linux → Windows

Both OSes win and lose in 2026.

Example: Linux still can’t run all programs or games, and some don’t run at all.

Example: Windows is the global OS, but far from perfect for everyone.

Some people only need gaming or gaming + streaming.

Others need work tools or gaming + work.

Some users want to remove annoying Windows features but can’t do it through the official settings.

So what’s the one thing in your OS that annoys you every day or stops you from switching?

I’ll answer your comment when I can.

Without warning, always at late night, Windows will try to drill a hole into my SSD by driving it to 100%. Windows Module Installer Worker will hog all the SSD to itself and put the computer to a halt. I have disabled Windows Update, but my latest visit to services.msc told me Windows doesn't care, it will run whatever it wants to. Am I working on something? Not anymore! Time to go for a walk while Windows decreases considerably my drive's lifetime expectancy. Do I need to save a document? Uh-uh! The program doesn't answer me anymore. Would I like to silence a video in another tab? NO! TURN THE SPEAKER OFF IF YOU WISH, FOR I, WINDOWS, OWN YOUR COMPUTER NOW! F#CK YOU, USER! THIS MACHINE IS MINE!!!!

I think I'm moving the PC out of my bedroom, lest it tries to murder me while I sleep.

(Good thing I'm too poor to cross paths with Bill Gates. Good for him, I mean.)

Windows keeps getting more bloated, more locked down, and more filled with stuff nobody actually wants. Every update hides more settings, adds more ads, and buries basic controls behind layers of UI. Even simple things that used to be one click now require digging through menus, registry edits, or random scripts from the internet.

I got tired of fighting the OS just to make it behave like a normal system again. So instead of relying on debloat scripts or hoping Microsoft stops adding nonsense, I started building my own tool to expose the controls Windows keeps burying.

The goal wasn’t to make something flashy or corporate-looking. I just wanted a clean interface that gives back the options Windows tries to hide. Something practical, fast, and actually useful.

Right now it already handles things like:

revealing hidden system options

disabling annoying built‑in features

cleaning up parts of the OS that normally require scripts

undoing some of Microsoft’s “forced” decisions

making Windows feel less restrictive and less like an ad platform

I’m improving it based on real use, not marketing. If something is annoying in Windows, I try to make it fixable. If something is buried, I try to surface it. If something is forced, I try to give the user a choice again.

If you want to check it out or give feedback, it’s here: https://crazyking.win