> From that moment on, unix followed me through all stages of my life: the toddler phase of keeping up with the cutting-edge Ubuntu releases, the rebellious teens of compiling custom kernels for my Thinkpad T61p and emerging the @world on Gentoo, the maturity of returning to Ubuntu lts and delaying upgrades until the first dot one release, and to the overwhelmed parent stage of becoming a happy macOS user.
I started off as a Linux zealot and followed a very similar trajectory. I think it’s a sign of maturity to realize there is no absolute “best” in engineering, just a best solution in a particular problem space, and Windows is the best for a large number of users for a reason.
I started as a Linux enthusiast a long time ago, these days in my own time I use macos and I don't miss Linux that much, as long as I'm in the terminal I don't feel a difference.
At daily job I'm forced to use Windows, the only thing that's keeping me from changing jobs is WSL2. I'm just not productive with mouse based tools, I need a terminal and powershell doesn't do it for me. Everything feels alien and less usable to me even after years, fonts, window decorations, file manager, UI inconsistencies between different tools. Everything seems slightly hostile and out of place.
I started off as a Linux zealot and followed a very similar trajectory. I think it’s a sign of maturity to realize there is no absolute “best” in engineering, just a best solution in a particular problem space, and Windows is the best for a large number of users for a reason.