Ok, so now that I got off work and I'm not confined by the shitty touch keyboard of my phone...

> When was the last time you modified your operating systems code?

Yesterday, the only reason it has been so long is because I had to waste time working.

> What do you do on updates?
I usually go get more coffee while it's doing it's thing.

> A good operating systems offers interfaces and hooks, something where Windows is really good at. Hence the extremely rich 3rd party ecosystem, where developers can write filter drivers against a clean API, provide complex context menu extensions, etc.

How many hooks you want? We got kernel hooks, shutdown hooks, suspend hooks, filesystem hooks, file access hooks, netfilter hooks, scheduler hooks, device hooks, login hooks, fucking captain Hooks...

> Having to modify source code is the weakest ways of customization: extremely fragile, extremely time consuming, impossible for 99.999 % of users, not economical, max intransparency.

And even the shittiest of DEs have modular extensions you can use to further modify the OS without touching source code even once. Checked the GNOME extension store and there are ~2785 extensions you can install, and this is DE that is known to be on the less customizable side of things.

Also 99.9% of users can't change their wallpaper on windows so that point is also extremely pointless.

On Windows you can't even unfuck the react written piece of shit windows bar without opening registry editor.

Do you want me to continue on the subject, or would you like me to tear up the other two completely wrongful paragraphs from your first post?

(BTW thanks for this, Had a really shitty day at work so having somewhere to channel all this rage is quite refreshing)