You and me both: I tried very hard to use Linux, but I couldn't find any compelling reason to stick to it. Having zfs snapshots would be nice, but not given the various pains Linux entails on the UI.
AutoHotKey has no serious match on Linux, but it's not the main reason I stick to Windows: it's the terminal support.
I'm a heavy terminal user, and I found my experience seriously worse on Linux than on Windows, with no way to replicate something as good as mintty.
I seriously considered finding a way to make mintty work on wine, before giving up.
When Windows Terminal achieves sixel support, maybe we'll see a port of WT to Linux? That'd be fun :)
Like with Edge on Linux that may incentivize me to try Ubuntu again!
I never imagined that mintty would support Tektronix graphics, much less the dual-color storage tubes!
- Work, all of the servers and workstations we have are Windows, management tools are Windows only.
- Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat are just some of the programs that won't run on Linux. Our remote access tool won't run on Mac or Linux. I can technically RDP to a server but at that point I might as well be running Windows.
- It just works. I'm running a Surface Laptop 4 but we can buy any computer on the market and guarantee that Windows 10 will run flawlessly on it. Driver support is first class, and backwards compatibility is amazing. We can run 20 year old CAD software on 10 with no issues.
I must be the luckiest user in the world, using Windows 10 on all my devices and I've never had the issues other people report. My files have never deleted themselves, it's rock solid and fast, never crashes.