| Full disclosure: Work has been Windows centric, but I recently moved to a new group with some Mac users. I'll have that choice, next time I swap hardware, but probably will stay with Windows because * Would miss too many amazingly useful utilities like arsclip. * Easier to patch into my home network, which is NTFS-based. * Employer is now wedded to Microsoft and Azure, so having Powershell and native access to NTFS AD on my native desktop is proving more useful. * I actually like the Windows interface, even with the Control Panel and other system utilities caught in a weird split between Windows XP and WIndows 10 UIs. * Some things, like certificate management and hosting a personal database, I do in Ubuntu or Debian as a VirtualBox guest under Windows. * Wife uses Windows on her laptop. She doesn't know it, but it's actually running as a VM on Debian, very stable, and can easily take her Windows to a new machine. * [I keep coming back to add items to this list] Remote Desktop Services have improved vastly, and I can manage remote servers or 12 year old client machines at a remote site with equal ease. (XP/7-era machines got a second life when I converted Windows OS disk to SSD). Also find screen sharing via 3rd party VNC (TightVNC) useful. * The keystrokes have become second-nature. Try as I might, I can never get fully comfortable on a Mac OS desktop. Now get off my lawn. |
Same, that's one of the biggest reasons - but I also agree with the rest of your list: what I like the most in Windows is the UI! I run most of my programs fullscreen, with shortcuts. I rarely use the mouse, and Windows plays along, while I have to fight other systems.
Even when run baremetal, Windows has improved so much over the board that once you add RDP/VNC, it's a no brainer.