[derstander]

> Probably because they were traumatized by how much extra work that was (and for a sub-par desktop experience overall), last time they went down that rabbit hole.

I’m in that camp. I ran Slackware on a Compaq laptop in the early 2000’s and it was more work than I would have liked — though I did have more free time then as a student.

I swapped to macOS and have been using that since for work and personal productivity projects, though I do use windows to play games. When my MacBook went on the fritz, I was forced to become acquainted with WSL. And I find it to be pretty usable for my use cases.

My MacBook is a bit aged at this point and probably needs replacement before too long. But now instead of comparing OSes (Linux or windows with WSL vs macOS), I need to think about hardware: battery life, build quality, and performance; my needs in these categories may still favor Apple in the laptop and small form factors.