Well, I'm not a tribalist for anyone or a Windows specialist. Apart from the annoying Synaptics business, now fixed, I've never had problems with it. You can dislike Redmond for any number of reasons and thanks to the open source community you don't have to use their products at all. Interestingly, most offices I walk into these days have OpenOffice or Libre and GIMP installed as default. They do, I presume, pay commercial licences.
By rights as a first gen C/UNIX programmer from way back with a contempt for bloat, I should be against MS, but I'm not really. Their products have been very useful to me.
In general (not including you in this), there is a weirdness about some Linux users. For one thing they seem driven by unhealthy revolutionary rage. For another they get absolutely messianic about their distro of choice. "Mint is for wimps", "openSUSE forever!" "Real men use Arch", etc. Talk about "fanbois"...
This strikes me as really odd. One of the best things about Linux is choice, so why tie yourself to one implementation when you don't have to? All distros are constantly evolving, so I keep a couple going side by side (with shared data folder), and a few others in VMs for evaluation. In a race without a finish line you can pick one from the front runners, but not a winner.
Another irony for me is that so many people forget probably the most important principle of C - don't reinvent the wheel. REAPER bristling with VSTs and Kontakt libraries and occasionally synced to video runs very well on W10 for me, so for now...
In case you're curious, my current main two distros are Mint and Ubuntu, plus Kali for ahem educational purposes and Manjaro on test.
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