windows 10

@skunkbad I have a similar experience.

I used to use windows a lot but then I started trying out a variety of different flavours of linux. I must admit at first it was a real pain, I just couldn't understand how difficult it was to get something working. Now I appreciate the inner workings and its security.

I never thought I'd own a mac, because I thought they were overpriced, but my love for the unix environment eventually spurred me to buy a reasonably cheap mac mini and hook it up to a standard monitor and I've never looked back. Why? Because mac supports all those good bits of software like, photoshop, illustrator and indesign, which quite frankly doesn't have a good alternative in linux.

After testing many linux distros, I kinda stuck with ubuntu for a few years as that was the go to distro of choice for the masses. But recently, I was unimpressed with unity and the resources it used. So searching a lot I stumbled across elementaryos, and I was immediately drawn to its low resources and super polished interface, almost competing with mac.

Like I said, I would probably use linux 100% if it wasn't for photoshop and illustrator needs- the creative cloud is a real rip off in my opinion.

Now in terms of windows I do have window 8.1 available for testing in a virtualbox. It's mainly for internet explorer, and I can't say I'm too enthused about Edge, windows internet explorer has left such a bad taste in any web developers mouth it is hard to imagine their new browser to be any different - other than compromising the standards and enforcing their own.

All in all, I've also read microsoft are enforcing updates in windows 10, as in there isn't an opt out choice. This just really irritates me. I've also become really averse to using frameworks/vms like dotnet and java over time.

It would be interesting to hear others share their stories.

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