Sysadmin here. I work with linux every day, live and breathe.

And both my actual workstation and my home machine are windows.

Because for tasks that aren’t inherently problem-solvey, I don’t want to have to problem-solve.

For tasks that need tools and technical skills and poking it with a stick, absolutely do them on linux. Logfiles, strace, tcpdump, your programming language of choice, all the tools in the box.

But for file/print/email/office/internet/media/video gaem, lolno fuck that. Save your creative ingenuity and mental bandwidth for the things that actually need it; you don’t want to be reinventing the wheel every morning just to make breakfast.

For the mundane shit where you only care about the content, the UX on windows (or mac, for the people used to it) is just boringly unobtrusive, and thus the better choice.

And never plays any of them.

The whole UX is just so bad