The only reason I'm sticking to my Macbook is the Linux based kernal, which makes it easier for me to use the command line, install NodeJS, build an application, install Redis Server on my local.

Though everything can be done in Windows, it's not easy to do so.

I specifically remember trying to install Redis on Windows and had to give up after the end of the day. Ended up creating a server and installing Redis on that on AWS.

Also, people are complaining that Microsoft once said "Linux is Cancer" at some point. A lot has changed since then. Ubuntu was released after that which IMO helped to adopt Linux by an end user.