[commandar]

>I think people who do this think that people who use Windows perceive that the Mac experience is smoother, and may have some sort of Mac envy.

There's an irony in this due to this:

>b) WSL-based, VSCode-using devs who are one step away from just using Linux. These are the folk who fifteen years ago would have been using what was then still OSX. But these folk don't use Windows as Windows: they use it as a semi-Unix.

The people still doing the "hurr durr wind0ze suxx" routine are the ones stuck 15 years in the past. Modern Windows is an entirely different and vastly more capable beast and it still runs huge swathes of the enterprise world.

The best technologists I know don't really care all that much which desktop platform you stick them on anymore since most of what they really need is either available everywhere or running on a backend that isn't their desktop anyway.

[ErroneousBosh]

> Modern Windows is an entirely different and vastly more capable beast and it still runs huge swathes of the enterprise world.

Okay, but what does it actually do that Linux doesn't? What's the selling point, why should I make the switch from Linux to Windows?

[linkage]

For one, it can run Raycast. There are launchers on Linux that implement a small fraction of Raycast's functionality, but entire categories of abilities are only possible in Raycast, like CRUD operations on Jira tickets, using AI to interact with your Notion workspace without having to pay Notion 20 USD per month, and directly interacting with other remote APIs with just a few keystrokes.