I've considered the "just use Linux" arguments thoroughly and they always come up short for my serious computing work.
It works for 90% of my use cases, the other 10% is unbearably difficult or impossible to reconfigure. And that's with the assumption I do a pretty significant HD shuffle just to work up to that functionality.
And that's without worrying about the long term update stability of stuff like Linux, where Ubuntu updates can cause major system issues if you don't get the next major version. (And please don't say that a less user-friendly release is the solution to that). 7 years from now beats Ubuntu's ~~5~~ <4 years of updates...
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