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I've been a SWE for >10 years & have been daily driving a Kubuntu desktop for more than a year now. I regularly run into basic issues day-to-day that require intensive troubleshooting, which would occasionally be catastrophic if I didn't know my way around a terminal. There are still minor issues/glitches I don't bother attempting to fix in preference of restarting.

I mostly feel these headaches are worthwhile in exchange for the freedom and other (mainly severely technical) perks I enjoy about the ecosystem. I can't speak for windows, but coming from macOS, calling the price paid for these perks today steep would still be an understatement to me.