The few companies in this business that target GNU/Linux produce software that pales in comparison to offerings on Windows & Mac OS X. For instance, PFClean by The Pixel Farm barely holds a candle to DIAMANT.
Now, this obviously has nothing to do with them targeting GNU/Linux, but at the end of the day you have to use the best tools for the job at hand.
There's sandbox in Windows now, and before that there was SanboxIE which I never needed though.
The backup on Windows is transparent and keeps all versions of the files. You just need to specify destination when it starts nagging.
Your Python script has nothing to do with OS. I have a few C# scripts for DynDNS and other stuff.
Windows takes about 20GB, and lives with full Visual Studio on a 60GB drive with about 15GB left.
Sounds like you haven't really used Windows after 7.
And yeah, not only I can remote in under a second with either SSH or RDP, I can do gaming easily, train my TensorFlow models, and use multiple monitors with a tiling WM.
Oh, and my laptops sleep well.
They're basing everything on what they read in Mac printed magazines about "Windoze" back in the late 80s.
EDIT: I am pretty damn proud of it though, nearly every week I'm finding some button I can "not have to click anymore" and packages that support that get recorded in the azure-os build script.
My entire OS weights 26gb, I can remote into servers across the globe faster than you can get a right-click menu on a win10 desktop, and I want to finish by reminding windows 10 users that their videogame OS ships with a start menu and boots like an orangutan with a PHD in sales.
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