Microsoft assumes that the users don't know what they're doing.  Unix 
famously assumes that the users *do* know what they're doing. 
Sometimes, two casualties of the latter assumption are the principle of 
least astonishment and the principle of least damage.  (That's why the 
very first thing I did after I installed GNU/Linux was to alias the cp, 
mv, and rm commands in my .bashrc.)

I had quite a few KWrite windows open to various files I was working on, 
most of them POV-Ray files.  Somehow or another, I clicked on something 
wrong somewhere, and every single last one of my windows instantly 
vanished, before I knew what had even happened.

I find KDE far easier to navigate than recent Microsoft Windows 
desktops.  (Why is it that every time Microsoft makes its products more 
user friendly, I find them more difficult to use than ever?)  But KDE 
has its quirks.  Like discarding the clipboard when I close a document. 
(Or maybe not; I haven't figured out the rules.)  Or allowing me to 
close multiple windows by accident.  I've lost multiple active console 
sessions this way.

Dammit, I can't remember everything I was working on.  And KWrite's 
"recent documents" algorithm operates in nonlinear time.  Maybe if I 
rewatch the movie _Arrival_, they will all come back to me.

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