Adobe suite (I used Figma and Adobe tools in my webdev career), PDF editing is a huge issue and lackluster on Linux, most of the office suite is not available natively on Linux (no, there's no valid replacements when your company is deep into VBA tooling, etc), PowerBI, but also many specific internal tools that many businesses have and have been developed as Windows-only applications, I had anything ranging from specific VPNs to screen sharing utils. But there's also more dev-focused tooling, from game development frameworks like Unreal Engine (for which I had to develop UIs in the past) and the related Visual Studio to FPGA tooling and USB debugging.
The list is long and generally based on your domain, but in a career I had almost always moments where I could not avoid having a Windows machine.
WSL allows you to generally have both of the words.
I don't dislike Windows in general to be honest, Power Toys, WSL, a great Terminal, it's an okay machine to develop and I like it better than MacOS from which I still have nightmares for being locked out of my hardware for 2 months due to an apple account issue.
Corporate mandate to use windows. Crowdstrike scans make doing anything on the command line a non-starter. For example, adding mise to my powershell prompt adds multiple seconds! to each powershell command execution... it's just not even feasible at that point to work in Windows. WSL resolves these issues.
Windows is good for gaming, especially multiplayer, and coding via WSL which is what many people use it for, there's really not much need to run desktop Linux.
as terrible as windows has gotten, i'm not switching my desktop to linux until it has perfect game + nvidia driver support, something that will probably never happen due to anti-cheat. until then, WSL is great.
We've made government so involved that we can not escape.
My radical believe is that I just want to be left alone.
In theory I have enough investments to live off if it wasnt for taxes and inflation. In theory I could buy a plot of land and take care of myself. An easy and simple existence.
I know all very radical..
Except not true. Civilised man is not independent. You buy that plot of land and... build a house with which materials. You need to get at least some groceries. If you get sick, who heals you? If you are abused, or you abuse someone, they need protection Etc etc. Coordination and oversight (= government) is a must.
You confuse a colossal government that has its tentacles in every aspect of life with people working together to achieve things. All of the above can be achieved though the market arguable much more efficient than by far away bureaucrats at a fraction of the cost.
You don't think employers have to compete for employees?
Are you not putting down terms for your contract or do you just sheepishly accept anything offered to you?
Not to mention the massive train wreck called state ran pensions, do you really want to get into that?
Do you think McDonalds and Burger King would compete for employees giving them free weekends?
> do you just sheepishly accept anything offered to you
Yes if there is no other option. Did coal miners in 1910 england just accepted those poor terms because they were dumb? They did not have other options. What if you are disabled, elderly.
State ran pensions: it's not good, but what is the other option?
Imagine a world where "free market" would regulate everything without states. You would 100% depend on your employee, on corporations?
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