Why do people always think the following:

When something goes wrong on windows its the fault of windows.
When something goes wrong on linux its probably a misconfiguration.

Most of the time things that go wrong on windows are misconfigurations or faulty software.

@Codex404 do you want to know what happened to me today on windows? Just some info before I start talking: I'm using windows for gaming and webbrowsing only. I did not config anything, only installed drivers for GPU, drawing tablet, steam, steam games, Firefox. I seriously did not config anything, not even privacy settings. So these things happened to me today:
- I can't move my mouse. Once I move it moved back instantly. Had to reboot into save mode (whatever its called) and uninstall drawing tablet driver. Was working after that but couldn't use my tablet obviously (driver was working for months without problems)
- games kept crashing after some time. I'm playing and after 30min it just freezes saying I've not got enough system resources (8GB vram on GPU + 32GB ram and they were not nearly full). But that seems to be caused by the falls update because I was able to play all games with out problems last month.

And can you please tell my how my nearly vanilla setup can work this bad?

@ThatDude ++ for a comment on a rant not being a rant about rants about a rant not being a rant about other rants

@b3b3 your mouse not moving is probably a problem with the compatibility of the driver of the tablet. Might have done an auto update. Happened to me before as well.

The other issue is not something I have anye experience with. For me everyrhing works like a charm and only when a game has an update it will have some small issues the first time after booting it up. But thats probably just Uplay.

@Codex404 I have to be honest: about half a year ago gaming on windows was working like a charm. But for some reason (my current win10 installation is 2 weeks old) it is not working as good as it did in the past. No, the drawing tablet driver did not update. The changelog dates the last update to September 2014. For some reason windows seems to destroy their OS after a few years. For me at least

@b3b3 weird, even the unstable insider builds have always been stable for me.

@Codex404 probably the fault of my bad karma. 💁 whatever

Most windows errors is due to bad drivers.

The developers took some short cut and used some undocumented call because it was easier/faster or they could not find an official one.

Problem with the undocumented calls, MS does not guarantee that they exist next version, or if they do the parameters changed.

Used to be a big problem with some game studios that often used undocumented to speed up the games but then never upgraded them to work on newer windows.

Thats what the compatibility setting in the properties for programs are for, they wrap the program in a sort of sandbox emulating an older windows.

But they are not perfect. Only the most common misused functions are mapped.

Even driver manufacturers do the same and sometimes it could be a mismatch between drivers.

For example the usb circuit driver and the tablet driver.

Also it more of a problem with odd or cutting edge hardware.

Midrange rarely focuses so much on speed that they need undocumented features. So bu buying a midrange computer you often get a more stable one.

The problem is the faulty software is windows.

My laptop is 5 months old. Sometimes my windows menu is empty and requires a reboot to work.

@Floydian thanks :)