I think I preferred Win 3.1.
Well 3.11 for workgroups who's best windows and a most polished 16 bit OS of all time's. That whose the end of Windows era, 32 bit king whose Linux 3.xx (3.06~3.14) Kernel which still runs some enterprise servers (and it will stay more than enough for automative probably forever). Win 10 isn't particularly bad, it's still (after all this years and reaching the end of development stage) rough on the edge's.
Background OS noise (syncing background processes and such) is rather annoying thing and all do it appears bandwidth used isn't huge great amount of it is random mixed IO (generally rather hard on storage drives logic). If some of intermediate caller's makes a huge indexing requests (like in Amir's case Adobe) which fails and fails to compile in this case by silent kernel panic (which originally actually is a security measure introduced in mentioned Linux Kernel) because it can not comply full condition to enter hybernation shuts it self completely down to prevent future demage. Of course everything in intermediate buffers (such as disc cache) gets lost.
Of course getting an drive which handles random traffic IO's better and more robust (bigger chank of SLC and DRAM) to make it less visible it doesn't solve the loss data problem so there whose lot of fuss about numerous non vaolate srorage random memory devices which are all still in development stages.
There are of course monstrosities on the software front that are so ludicrous but that is really hard to explain (so I won't even try to do that). MB software from Asus/Gigabyte, Adobe service, Nero burning ROM just to name a few. Central problem of such is central integration hub a like for bunch of things you really don't want nor probably will need ever ending up with huge pile of bloat like 1GB just that you can read a pdf or control a RGB element (thank good CD's are mostly dead so at least you don't need Nero al that much anymore).
Increasing complexity of command's (instructions) and never ending introduction of new one's and more or less specialised accelerators even more contributes to difficulties of software development which lags more and more (time requirements for good written, optimised and checked code) behind actual silicone. With which coders community & end users ain't thrilled with to say at least (OoO execution CVE's, Specialised wide SIMD's and cetera).
Thing's probably won't get better, actually quite opposite so learn to relax and live with it, best regards.