[Propelloni]

I have to do all my corporate work on Windows. I have a self-hosted Windows server. I used Windows as my main work computer OS for three years, and in that time I struggled with compatibility issues, applications that wouldn't run as well as people said they would, driver update issues, necessary tools that simply don't exist on Windows, and various configuration failures that simply don't exist on Linux. Saying that you can work on Windows is like saying you can play games on Linux. Sure, it's technically possible, and for some things it works smoothly. But 99% of resources on the web assume that you're on the normal OS, and as soon as you try to do anything even slightly outside of the basics, you're going to run into trouble.

Granted, I'm using Linux for 25 years now, so I may be biased. Things that are easy on Linux are often incredibly hard on Windows, if they are possible at all. Things that used to be hard on Linux, e.g. installing, gaming, are now easy. Things that used to be easy on Windows, e.g. typing into the start menu search box, installing, are now hard.

[simoncion]

As someone who grew up with DOS, and later Windows 3.1 through 98, I can confidently say that Windows continues to become an ever-worse shitshow.

I'm so glad that I made Linux my daily-driver OS decades ago and (these days) only boot into Windows when I want to play games that have good HDR support. Valve has done so much good, effective work towards getting games (both major and minor) to work well on Linux. I hope whoever replaces Gabe N. and the other core management is at least as ethical, driven, and farsighted as the current folks running the show are.

[hatthew]

I'm not sure what your point is? Coding works well on linux, games work well on windows. Neither works as well on the other.

[Propelloni]

I think I'm lampooning the hyperbole. Both, Linux and Windows, have their own issues, and some shared issues, but none are making one or the other unusable or even hard to use. I, for one, am more comfortable with the issues Linux throws up than with those Windows throws up, which I often find vexing, but I guess that's habituation. It's important to realize your own biases, isn't it?

[hatthew]

Yeah, I agree that bias is an important factor here for general day-to-day usage issues. But even beyond subjective bias, there are things that are _literally impossible_ to do on an OS without manually porting some tool from its original OS to the new one. And generally, if a tool is only designed for one OS, it's windows for gaming-related tools and linux for coding-related tools.