Interesting, I've always thought that I will work on Linux, because I love Linux tools, but I will miss some Windows specific tools. And this is how I was rolling last 4 years.
But what I really needed was Windows system with WSL and good integration of GUI apps (Still on W10 tho) where I can use my beloved tools for programming, and still have access to games, apps like Office (here only Excel that I care about) and some other Windows/macOS only.
With Edge I switched a few months ago for testing. It's great to be honest. Especially because of support Chrome extensions - and here I need WASM development plugin. Firefox does not offer such ability yet. I decided to opt out from Google as much as I can. The only missing part in Edge is the tabs and history management. It's hard to name, but Firefox is somehow smarter in searching in my history of visited pages when I type on the search bar. OK, there is another one. If I type a page that I have already opened, then in Firefox, It automatically switches to that already opened page. In Edge the default choice is to open duplicated page.
I recently bought my wife a new laptop. After 10 minutes of arguing with a fresh install of Windows 10 I had to rage quit for my own mental health:
0. There were a thousand different prompts nagging me to allow their tracking and ads (and some options amounted to either “yes to everything” or “yes to most things” with no “don’t fucking track me” option in sight.
1. Followed by Microsoft forcing my to tie my local user account to my Microsoft account. Then forcing me to enter the 30 character password that I usually just paste from my password manager for online accounts.
2. Then being greater by spamware that had an X button which literally did Jack shit.
3. And a chaotic task menu with 13 different control panels.
I handed the machine to my wife and told her I can’t be her desktop support guy for this thing because there was a high risk of me throwing the laptop out the window in a rage (maybe that’s why it’s called “Windows”?)
I honestly think the only reason people think they like Windows is down to Stockholm syndrome.
But what I really needed was Windows system with WSL and good integration of GUI apps (Still on W10 tho) where I can use my beloved tools for programming, and still have access to games, apps like Office (here only Excel that I care about) and some other Windows/macOS only.
With Edge I switched a few months ago for testing. It's great to be honest. Especially because of support Chrome extensions - and here I need WASM development plugin. Firefox does not offer such ability yet. I decided to opt out from Google as much as I can. The only missing part in Edge is the tabs and history management. It's hard to name, but Firefox is somehow smarter in searching in my history of visited pages when I type on the search bar. OK, there is another one. If I type a page that I have already opened, then in Firefox, It automatically switches to that already opened page. In Edge the default choice is to open duplicated page.