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If someone wants a good development platform and is leaving the Mac, why not switch to Linux rather than Windows? Windows is IMHO not pleasant to use: the ads, the UI, the lack of speed. Linux is ad-free, pleasant & beautiful (with StumpWM anyway; Unity, GNOME & KDE aren't so great), and blazingly fast. Plus it's free software.

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When I read "ads" I had to do a double-take. I find it really surprising that people are willing to tolerate an OS with built-in "malware". Is it because people simply aren't aware that there are alternatives?

No, it's because when there are three main alternatives, and the one with ads has massive market share, you are necessarily going to have some people using it.

Including people who don't actually tolerate the ads, but who need to target that platform.

There is an option to turn them off.

I've never seen an ad in Windows 10 -- but I installed a start menu replacement. Linux just simply can't support the hardware in my laptop appropriately, I don't do much gaming but I appreciate the option, and the subsystem for Linux is actually good enough for my needs. There are plenty of small issues that make Linux as-primary-OS not a great solution.

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