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Frankly, I don't understand the unix-like argument. I keep on hearing it from devs, but if your work happens mostly in IDEs and occasionally on the command line with tools like npm or gradle you never get in touch with potential "unix-ness" of your system.

The reason why I switched to Linux for work is its focus on power users, e.g. great configurability or well thought-out command line applications, but not because it's close to unix.

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"focus on power users, e.g. great configurability or well thought-out command line applications"

Yeah, because it's an UNIX-like.

I'm not talking about command line languages or tools, but applications building an interface to it, like Terminal. It's much handier and more configurable than the built-in ones in Windows for cmd and PowerShell.

and that is because the whole pseudo terminal system was always there not encumbered by cmd wonkiness. That plus filesystem semantics alone make a unix like system miles ahead of microsoft.

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