If you're going to complain about the speed and convenience of developing certain types of software on Windows compared to a Unix system, then I'm with you 100%. I'd rather use Arch to work on anything that's not specific to Windows because most of the open source kits I use were originally developed on and for a Unix-like OS.
You know how long it took me to setup my Linux laptop to make it usable though? About a week, to fix all the little annoyances and things that were just missing. I actually had to build some of my own little utilities with things like `xdotools` or whatever, to get it to be feature complete in my eyes. And I'm positive that many here will disagree but Macs are not even able to made usable IMO (especially for heavy keyboard users), so I typically only touch my Macs for testing websites and compiling iOS apps.
Meanwhile, in about 5 hours last night I setup a brand new Windows gaming box for my nieces with offline, non-Microsoft account logins, "ads" (aka suggested apps) removed from the start menu, tons of games from Steam and of course Fortnite from Epic games... It took me about 20 minutes of just going through each and every setting in Settings to turn off all the features I didn't want. A couple other things I wanted to turn off were in the Group Policy Editor. This is the same way I setup all of my Windows dev and entertainment boxes and things always run fine after initial setup. (In my house we have like 6 Windows boxes, 2 Linux stations, a Mac Pro, a Macbook Pro and quite a few iDevices. The OS that gives me the least amount of annoyance is Windows, by far. Linux gives the most freedom, but with some annoyance. I find Macs and iDevices the most limiting and annoying of all unless you compare them to Android. We do have some old dead Android devices lying around, but nobody uses them anymore because they stopped receiving updates. We did get one Chromebook for my wife instead of a new laptop and it's pretty nice for remoting into her Windows desktop or for visiting the world of Android apps from time to time. The battery life is amazing too...an Acer Chromebook 14.)
However, I don't think you could be more wrong about the usability of Windows, particularly with the keyboard. Windows is more easily navigable with just a keyboard than any other desktop OS that I've seen. The macOS has the worst keyboard navigation. Most Linux desktops including my favorite (XFCE) follow after the Windows style of keyboard navigation, albeit with more bugs than actual Windows.
> The anti keyboard campaign is accelerating. ... For instance, keyboard right-click, plus R used to activate the property menu.
That's just because you have 2 menu items that both use the _R_ keyboard accelerator. You can easily remove one of them with the registry editor or change its shortcut. (The second menu item you're complaining about is the "Compress to <filename>.zip" command, which you should remove and replace with 7-zip anyway IMO.)
> The network interface is fine, but slow and will stop working if you turn it on/off often. ... Bluetooth connection has become a try your luck activity.
Haven't seen this. I use a laptop at work and I often switch off between wifi and lan. I use bluetooth headphones all day, no problems...
> Finally, the new control panel is just frustrating and confusing for simple tasks.
I find it vastly superior to other systems. The search works better than it does on my Macs where Apple just highlights all the matches in the System Preferences instead of giving a normal search result. I can generally find everything I need from the main Settings app whereas with my Manjaro system, I have about 20 different control panels for different things.
You know how long it took me to setup my Linux laptop to make it usable though? About a week, to fix all the little annoyances and things that were just missing. I actually had to build some of my own little utilities with things like `xdotools` or whatever, to get it to be feature complete in my eyes. And I'm positive that many here will disagree but Macs are not even able to made usable IMO (especially for heavy keyboard users), so I typically only touch my Macs for testing websites and compiling iOS apps.
Meanwhile, in about 5 hours last night I setup a brand new Windows gaming box for my nieces with offline, non-Microsoft account logins, "ads" (aka suggested apps) removed from the start menu, tons of games from Steam and of course Fortnite from Epic games... It took me about 20 minutes of just going through each and every setting in Settings to turn off all the features I didn't want. A couple other things I wanted to turn off were in the Group Policy Editor. This is the same way I setup all of my Windows dev and entertainment boxes and things always run fine after initial setup. (In my house we have like 6 Windows boxes, 2 Linux stations, a Mac Pro, a Macbook Pro and quite a few iDevices. The OS that gives me the least amount of annoyance is Windows, by far. Linux gives the most freedom, but with some annoyance. I find Macs and iDevices the most limiting and annoying of all unless you compare them to Android. We do have some old dead Android devices lying around, but nobody uses them anymore because they stopped receiving updates. We did get one Chromebook for my wife instead of a new laptop and it's pretty nice for remoting into her Windows desktop or for visiting the world of Android apps from time to time. The battery life is amazing too...an Acer Chromebook 14.)
However, I don't think you could be more wrong about the usability of Windows, particularly with the keyboard. Windows is more easily navigable with just a keyboard than any other desktop OS that I've seen. The macOS has the worst keyboard navigation. Most Linux desktops including my favorite (XFCE) follow after the Windows style of keyboard navigation, albeit with more bugs than actual Windows.
> The anti keyboard campaign is accelerating. ... For instance, keyboard right-click, plus R used to activate the property menu.
That's just because you have 2 menu items that both use the _R_ keyboard accelerator. You can easily remove one of them with the registry editor or change its shortcut. (The second menu item you're complaining about is the "Compress to <filename>.zip" command, which you should remove and replace with 7-zip anyway IMO.)
> The network interface is fine, but slow and will stop working if you turn it on/off often. ... Bluetooth connection has become a try your luck activity.
Haven't seen this. I use a laptop at work and I often switch off between wifi and lan. I use bluetooth headphones all day, no problems...
> Finally, the new control panel is just frustrating and confusing for simple tasks.
I find it vastly superior to other systems. The search works better than it does on my Macs where Apple just highlights all the matches in the System Preferences instead of giving a normal search result. I can generally find everything I need from the main Settings app whereas with my Manjaro system, I have about 20 different control panels for different things.