I don't know why, but I have a profound love for learning about how Windows works. I could go out and read the raw linux source code and find out everything, but I tend to find NT's architecture more appealing. I ended up buying the Windows Internals books for fun.
This interest has lead me to have a much better understanding of how and when things go wrong on my personal desktop, and how to troubleshoot them. I wonder how much of the hate Windows gets from developers is simply people feeling confused and left out of the information bubble.
That code image reminds of how much I hated Windows code. Everything is bad: the layout, spacing, capitalization, colors and fonts. From the overall screen to the individual pixels, they all make me want to scratch my eyes out. Look at those {} and @ glyphs!
If your source code/editor/fonts produces screen contents so ugly that people with taste can't bear to look at it, the end-user experience isn't going to be awesome.
Edit: I see now it's decompiled code. But the original source was probably written by someone looking at that same font (FixedSys?). Assuming that function originated in Windows NT, they would have been editing on an earlier version of Windows.
You're looking at a screenshot of some pseudocode and somehow asserting that this is what "Windows code" looks like, as if Windows code is stored in PNG format instead of a text format that allows you to use your own preferred editor, font, and coloring. That's not even what Visual Studio looks like. It's pseudocode generated by IDA. It's literally not even "Windows code".
You're somehow even critical of the "individual pixels". The individual pixels are in your screen and if you can't bear to look at them, get a better monitor.
What you're doing here isn't demonstrating taste. Your criticism is shallow and uninformed. This is at best snobbery.
Disclosure: Microsoft employee and generally annoyed by superficial snobbishness.
Fortunately, as part of Satya Nadella's turnaround of Microsoft, Windows 10 has been rewritten in Consolas instead of FixedSys, resulting in a vast improvement of aesthetics and reliability.
Notwithstanding capitalization and Hungarian notation, you're complaining about IDA [1] not Windows code. Editing code with Visual Studio [2] is a largely pleasant affair.
This interest has lead me to have a much better understanding of how and when things go wrong on my personal desktop, and how to troubleshoot them. I wonder how much of the hate Windows gets from developers is simply people feeling confused and left out of the information bubble.