It does not even shine on one thing that people use it for which is hilarious. You are a clueless user, just like the majority of windows userbase. Have fun selling your soul to a trillion dollar corp tho, it must be a great feeling
Source: I switched nearly all my machines to linux over the past couple years.
At home I still need to have a native Windows laptop because of one application that I use a lot (a backgammon analyser) that runs natively on Windows and is heavily cpu driven. I could run it in a VM but the performance penalty is just too heavy.
- Work (heavy usage of Microsoft office apps)
- Audio / recording studio
- Some gaming
- Software development
Unfortunately for me, that's three uses where Windows excels, versus one for Linux.
If someone disagrees or agrees with my comment they should feel free to state their points or just ignore it. Maybe he has good points that speak against Mac
I am not that proficient, I tried it three times, first hurdle is trying to find a distro, making all that research about which ones have more pre-configuration and which ones would be less buggy for your hardware can be a pain.
The thing that attracted me to Linux is the file system and customization. I just wanted to daily drive it, not really for any work. But bugs are just a reality using most DEs available.
In my case once, it even was related to performance, I had to stay the whole day trying to find out why Kubuntu was slower than Windows on my laptop, ended up just being one line in some config file that forced battery-saving performance, I failed to find the post online after encountering the same issue months later after reinstalling the system.
Believe it or not, it's not all sunshine and rainbows, I just realized I use Windows more and more in my dual boot system, so I gave up on using Linux after that.
As a software dev I understand that having telemetry is a good thing. I dont believe it is "extremely invasive".
And I have no idea what AI features you mean (at least on Win10).