I think what this person is trying to say is that because of the endless customisation options and the not-too-rare lack of support for random things (Gaming Anti-cheat, Support from “industry standard” (vendor lock-in) software that dominates the market because everyone in industry uses them, Nvidia especially on Wayland, etc.). It is true, that with Linux you can end up spending hours on end finding the perfect setup, solving weird little bugs and issues, and distrohopping.
Windows provides ROI
See the free-of-charge Linux distros above. By definition, INFINITE ROI
All the professional software properly supported
I disagree with the wording here. All the “professional” software works because it’s made for that system. Blaming Linux for lack of Adobe support is like blaming Windows for not supporting valgrind or zsh. It’s up to the program’s developers to support it.
Easy to install
True, but in my experience, the Windows installer can be more difficult to use and makes things very unfriendly for people who want to dual boot, when compared to Ubuntu and distros that use the Calamares installer. With these, I get a visual overview of my partitions, making it far easier to visualise my drive and remember what partition to wipe. So the Windows installer is very unfriendly in that regard.
Required daily use to work properly
If you mean updates, that is kinda true. Only kinda because you can use, say CTT’s winutil to switch to security updates only, with feature updates delayed by a few months.
MacOS is a “toaster” OS
If you mean the lack of features and the level of lockdown by Apple, then yes, I’d probably agree.
perfect for your weekend surfing activities
And nothing else.
The other stuff below that are pretty much correct.
In short, Linux is a tinkerer’s paradise trying to become more easy to use in hopes of gaining marketshare and software support. The issue is that it’s a cycle of no support because low marketshare, low marketshare because no users, no users because no software support. Things will get there, to the point where I can see Linux being better than Windows 11 by the time Windows 10 goes EOL (2025). The issue is that Windows 12 is coming with all sorts of AI marketing gimmicks. It’s yet unclear how Linux will respond to that.
Windows is the business system. It is a system built from a corporation that bought it off someone else, with that someone else having created a clone of another system (look up Gary Kildall if you don’t know what I’m talking about). Over the years, Microsoft has used ruthless business practices (United States vs Microsoft Corp., the Halloween documents, EEE) to build up and maintain expansive market dominance. Then they used that dominance to actively make their product more profitable to them and thus worse for the consumer (ads, forced updates, terrible optimisation, terrible security, terrible system requirements, vendor lock-in, a distinct lack of customisation (they even removed the ability to have the bar at the top!), telemetry that you can’t even fully disable, etc.) and it keeps on getting worse with all the AI and cloud PC stuff that’s just some bullshit marketing gimmicks used to siphon off more money and data from a consumer that has no choice.
Or do they? Let’s look at the last choice, MacOS. What does MacOS have to offer? Nothing really. I mean, it’s kind of a middle ground between the two. It’s a Unix system meaning the terminal experience is similar to Linux (aka it’s actually good) and it has the “professional” apps the OP was talking about, while also having some of the customisability of Linux (from what I’ve heard, it has a pretty decent tiling window manager called yabai), but also suffering from a distinct lack of power user features or even decent window management features in the default desktop experience that it comes with, which I find quite ironic. It also SUCKS when it comes to Gaming.
And that’s without mentioning the vendor lock in where the meh OS is tied to terrible hardware, so to me, it’s not even worth it.
There was a very good video on MacOS that I’d recommend: