I'm a sysadmin, most of my servers run SLES nowadays. At home, i usually go for bsd, unless i have to start compiling drivers myself (in which case i usually switch to debian). It's not because compiling drivers is impossible, but because once you start compiling drivers, you'll have to manually check for new versions once in a while, and recompile if a new version has been found.

This being said: my employer forces me to use a windows PC for work purposes... So most of my time, my desktop system is windows... I hate it. It's completely bolted down, centrally managed. I can't even install any application without sending the binary to the laptop admin so he can update his filter with the hash of the binary (otherwise the system's filter won't even let me start the application). The security "features" really stop me from doing what i want to do all the time, and even if there's a setting i can change i have to go trough sooooo many configuration screens just to edit something smal.

I'm not even talking about how slow this windows system is, the updates take for ages, rebooting is slow,.... If i update my servers, i just register a new repo with newer binaries, enter "zypper up" and 3 minutes later i have all the new packages. If i reboot, it takes just a few moments from hitting enter on the terminal and being able to ping my server again.

If i had the choice, i'd probably never touch a system with a windows os ever again... But that's just my personal opinion