More like the way supercomputers are run. Youve got to submit a job to be done, and then the jobs are arranged by priority and it may take a while before your code runs on it.
You can change it if you have admin rights. But Windows is mostly used by businesses still, which dont let their users control anything.
Also, Windows isnt a cheap operating system. If Im gonna pay for something, it better be useable. When I use Linux, I expect it to be basically unuseable out of the box and need a lot of changes to get it working, but thats ok because I didnt pay for it
The point is more that if we have more processing power in a tiny device in our pockets than NASA (and most of the world combined) had in the 60s, everything else also should have advanced at a similar rate. So why am I not living on Pluto?