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by smoldesu 1529 days ago
It really is a matter of perspective. I ended up doing the same thing as the parent comment, switching to Linux after being fed up with Windows and MacOS. It took me a few tries to find a package manager that worked for me (and I certainly borked my fair share of systems in the first few months), but Linux just worked in ways that MacOS and Windows never really did for me. Software installed quickly and flawlessly. Dev tools like git, docker and make were no longer second-class experiences. My coreutils were up-to-date, out-of-the-box. I could test and compile stuff on my own system and reliably deploy it to the cloud without needing to account for different architectures, kernel breakage or ABI incongruity. Virtual machines and containers executed faster than any other system I had tried. Microsoft Edge wasn't begging me to leave it as default. I didn't get notifications about The New Safari.

It ultimately comes down to workload, I suppose. If you're a creative professional or build iPhone apps for a living, I doubt you'll enjoy your time on Linux very much. As someone who does neither of those things very often, Linux feels like home to me.