Admittedly, it's been a long time since I did anything with linux, but I have done some. I'm not a developer, I don't know how to write any code. I know some DOS scripting and now some powershell. If I need to do anything slightly different with linux, it would require me to learn a whole new scripting language, and all of the documentation I've seen for anything linux seems to be written for an audience of people who already really know what they're doing in linux and just need a specific reference material.
I've had mainly Windows machines all my life, I have been forced by necessity to figure out how to do what I need on those. I imagine if I'd had linux machines since ... 1995? I would feel as comfortable with linux now. But the barrier to entry to even having a linux machine, let alone making it do what I needed it to do, back in the late 90s, early 2000s, was way higher than it was for Windows. It arguably still is.
I didn’t go back to Windows, at least not directly.
I was enjoying Linux on my old lap, but then I managed to get a MacBook Pro 2014 in that year and ditched Linux for macOS they are very alike although macOS is way more closed…
Then I discovered you can’t go full macOS either, that’s why I BootCamp as well with W10 installed, I barely touch it but it’s still there for simple things like running .bat scripts, having a no lame NTFS support, and some light Steam gaming and local government software gore.
Screen size problems. My PC is setup as gaming/HTPC for the living room.
Constantly having to fight with it reverting from the 1080 I set, to native 4k. Pretty jarring when you’re popping out of a game and expecting a different res.
Other than that my daughter plays Minecraft with her friends and needed windows for that because I’m not purchasing the game a third time.
Breaking free of radicalizing algorithms and agenda driven rage farmers will feel weird for a while. There’s a process of recovery when healing from any destructive addiction.
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