I use Windows (10) at work all day because A) that's what's on the work machine and B) Chrysler only releases Windows versions of the software I need to use. I use macOS as my daily driver at home because it just works. I don't think I've run across anything that didn't work the way I wanted it to without having to do any kind of work to get it to. I was using Linux (xubuntu mostly) as my daily driver at home for the last few years, but once I got a chance to sit down at a Mac there was just no turning back. No more weird audio and video driver configs, no messing with JACK for low-latency audio podcast recording/monitoring, no dependency issues trying to make kdenlive work on anything other than KDE, etc... I do actually love Linux and I still run it on a couple machines for a server and a proxy device, but I've decided it just isn't for me as a desktop OS. I'm too lazy to put the work into it for any of my fringe use-cases and oddball hardware.
I've actually been enjoying Windows 10 a bit, but it's probably mainly because it's reminding me more of Linux than Windows lately. Once they get some of the bash issues straightened out it should be a really cool way to get some work done.
Well Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 GUI idea came from Ubuntu. The multimedia side is where linux has its cons, but, that is getting in shape already.
Linux has Blender and there are open standards on the way to create a unique multimedia solution that is compatible with every distro and GUI. I have had those problems but i am not a multimedia developer i am mainly a mainstream linux user so i see no problems in that area.
I want very secure policies and that is where linux is strong. I don't have to pay royalties to upgrade my distro also.
Absolutely. If the hardware support was a bit better (fault of the manufacturers and not Linux developers) I'd quite possibly switch back in an instant.
Well if everyone did not want to make a new linux distro everytime then the multimedia driver problem wouldn't be a big issue.