> Working on Linux is also hands tied behind my back because distro maintainers are basically dictators you have no influence over because you don't pay them in any way, in fact they donate their valuable time to you.
What you think MS cares more about your concenrs because the couple of bucks you throw them? This is not the reality we live in.
Meanwhile Linux distros have public bug trackers an the devs are infinitely easier to reach than Windows devs. And unlike Windows you do have the source and build scripts to all components if you want something that the devs don't care for.
But I get your sentiment, linux feels better than windows but I am surprised you didn't try to do things outside of the strict documented ways of your distro initially like most people.
The author isn't just being critical, their criticism is wrong because they are comparing Linux things without mentioning the tools you use in windows to do similar things. The difference is, while windows has powershell, wmi, and tons of other tools and features, you can do so much with it's equivalent of the DE that it is easy to think that is all there is to it.