Re: You say 'boring' like it's a bad thing
I see your point, but I'm not sure I agree, at least in the case of Windows.
I found moving from MS-DOS to BSD with a decent shell (I was using tcsh at the time, later ksh and bash) pretty damn exciting. Command line use and scripting became much less of an exercise in working around the rather pathetic limitations and awkward misfeatures of the tools, and much more a matter of doing things in convenient, sensible, consistent ways.
I believe there's plenty of room for that sort of exciting change in Windows. Like, oh, not spontaneously deciding to install a bunch of updates and reboot, for example.1 That in itself would be an exciting change.
1The "metered interface" trick alas doesn't work for me, as my IT Overlords have disabled it via Group Policy.
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