Built-in tools are hot garbage
What should have been a simple partition action turned into an hours long cavalcade of horrors and frustration, for a task I have done many times before. I should not need to buy a higher edition of an operating system or rely on third-party utilities to have basic control over hardware I own. Managing storage, repairing the system, and recovering from problems should be core operating system responsibilities. Instead, Windows frequently provides limited tools that handle only the simplest scenarios, leaving users to search for third-party software, obscure command-line solutions, or paid utilities to perform ordinary maintenance. The problem is not a lack of advanced enterprise features. This is about basic ownership: if I own the PC, I should have reliable built-in tools to manage my own disks and recover my own system. When the built-in tools fail or are incomplete, the burden falls on the user to become a system administrator just to perform routine tasks. That is not a good user experience. Its beyond time to ditch the corporate operating systems. Yes Linux can have a steeper learning curve, but its worth it to not have to fight your OS every step of the way.