Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

A developer with 20+ years of macOS experience shares their firsthand account of switching to Windows 11 as a daily driver. The good: Windows Explorer, winget package manager, built-in window tiling, native 4K scaling, WSL2 for Linux dev work, and gaming. The bad: deeply inconsistent UI layers spanning multiple Windows eras, keyboard shortcut muscle memory conflicts requiring AutoHotKey workarounds, a broken keyboard layout management system, font rendering issues, DDC/CI brightness control failures, disk letter assignment problems, and persistent multi-year bugs. WSL2 is impressive but leaks abstraction constantly. The author ultimately gave up and bought a used M1 MacBook Air, concluding Windows 11 has real potential buried under years of accumulated technical debt and misplaced AI feature priorities.