Try not to give away the ending?

First time using desktop windows after almost 20 years of Linux. I'd built up a decent workflow and config, so of course I'm not having a great time of it. But it's the global things that are much worse. The update process is terrible, configuration options limited, windows management not great.

Did you futz with the default install location... own up now

That's a gently powerful image, love it. Alas your link isn't working