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I am so spoiled by the Linux/Debian/Gnome OS which lets me pick and use the tools and workflows that work for me.

Windows and iOS are the exact opposite of that, they constantly push me towards their "ecosystem". Opting out of those is a constant battle.

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I'm very pro-linux by personal preference, but I always find it silly when Linux tools are billed as good. They're powerful certainly, but what we as a community should hear when someone remarks "Can Windows really be called an operating system?" is that our tooling is so supremely bad that, despite its raw power, people would rather deal with a locked down ad-ware mess than have to consider our tools.

We're not spoiled, we're just deviants.

Have you tried editing text files on iOS and copying them to another machine without an online service? On every other OS you have OpenSSH and some text editor installed already, on iOS the easiest thing to do is install iSH but it's still pretty painful since it's slow and can't see everything.

I operate my own pastebin for this purpose, running software which works in almost any browser.

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