Wow. You expressed everything I thought of in a very minimal words. It would have taken taken atleast 3x times to express the same idea. What was your thought process when you wrote the above post. Did you thought in a single pass or did you revise it multiple times. Do you have any techniques to express so concisely. Are you a native English speaker. I don't think that might matter much because even in native language I cannot express conscisely and clearly the same time. I am asking this because I have observed though I am technically (coding) well above average I have found when I want to express an idea I keep rewording(correcting) to express the idea. This increases the cognitive load of the listener and makes both of us uncomfortable. While writing i can do multiple pass to correct and that helps. Any suggestions would help. Thanks
Okay I will give another try. Elon was doing PhD and discontinued while he founded his first company in 90's. Since computers was not his main interest he used windows to the get the work done because windows is easier to learn and start getting output. From then on elon was crazy busy to do lot of other things and never got time to learn Linux . At the same time Elon wants control over everything which means at any point in time he wants to understand what the software is doing and even be involved in making changes to it if required first hand. Now with this background obviously Elon went with windows because he don't have to learn Linux and can use his already learnt windows knowledge.
Thinking from first principle you can reason why Elon pushed for windows. Elon is a guy who wants to get done. On windows you get a linear output with time spend on it. On Linux the output is exponential. Relative to windows lot of time is required for entry on Linux.Since Elon is man of output he did not like to spent so much upfront time. Also he don't want to let go the control as he is micro manager.
Very few people are too smart to write compilers. Very very few people make huge personal sacrifice to dedicate their entire lives to the ideology they believe in for the good of the world. RMS is both which is very rare.