It's simply the best Windows. Like, it's still not as good as Linux for anything a bit complex, but at least it's actually usable, fast, doesn't feature ads in the start menu, doesn't have built-in AI shitware, and has a decent customization capability.
This "ackchually, Win10 is good" revisionism that appeared when 11 released is infuriating. When 10 came out, everyone hated it, and now that something even worse exists, somehow the old shit became good?
But you actually own your games ☝️🤓 Well, you don't, as clearly stated in their EULA, but their disinfo campaign was successful in selling a product worse than Steam in every way, with 0 upsides.
I've had updates fail on NixOS. A kernel update didn't generate the initramfs and the system wouldn't boot. Booting to a previous generation and reapplying the update fixed it.
This is very rare, though, and unlike Arch can be fixed without a Live USB.
Perhaps organised into some sort of domains for clarity?