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by randomsearch 3534 days ago
Depends what you're doing.

For most technical work, hacking, most coding, Linux is the way to go. .NET being a notable exception. I don't have experience of powershell but it doesn't make much sense to me to use anything but *NIX if you're hacking, eg bash is the de facto standard shell.

If you're using a laptop, Windows still has big advantages in terms of drivers, "just working" etc. But then I'd buy a MacBook anyway.

The general UI is fine with Windows 10. I actually prefer the task bar to OS X's dock and definitely to Unity.

But overall I find things still don't work here and there. Stuff randomly crashes still, you do find yourself restarting and reinstalling things. And I've only been using it rarely (colleague insist on using Windows).

In a word, I guess, "no".