Setsul#15
NVMe is a lot better than SATA for SSDs and Windows 11 would still be a shit OS if it couldn't boot from anything but NVMe. It's the same thing.
Or a better comparison: Everyone got at least two cores these days. No one should be buying a single core CPU anymore. Does that mean it's acceptable for an OS to be so bloated that it needs at least two cores because even in idle a single core would be at 100%? Hell no.
and there are options which both leverage the strength of SSDs and don't do that. I run Artix because I was bored and wanted to try not systemd but I don't really advise it. Arch is nice though because the AUR lets you be lazy and not think and you can run someone else's install script so you don't have to think when installing either.
As I said in a less extreme manner previously, windows 10 is a fucking dumpster fire on fire with skunk perfume to make it smell better. I miss Windows 7, Microsoft making it not work on newer CPUs was the hill I died on even though it's a trivial workaround and I moved to Linux at that point.
I don't think the state of Windows is acceptable. I'm just saying that expecting users to be running an SSD isn't actually unreasonable, and there are far worse things to worry about like the largely inferior cpu scheduling, built-in spyware, instability of updates, fucking preinstalled nearly unremoveable candy crush, forcing Microsoft accounts in setup when you aren't offline, windows search indexing being fucking dogshit, inconsistent theming with settings functionality split between various menus from various windows versions to make you lost even if you're an actual fucking poweruser, and in general Microsoft's largely irresponsible handling of Windows.
Having an SSD for boot drive vs not having an SSD for boot drive is not really the hill to die on here imo and the problem isn't really SSD optimization vs HDD optimization on windows, but the utter lack of optimization and stability on Windows in general as a desktop operating system. It's just one more reason why you should have an SSD for a boot drive anyways.