If containers, VMs, and dual-boot are banned in the workspace I kinda feel the fear of things not work is legit. When I'm forced to code on a Windows computer without WSL at university's Programming course in electrical engineering department. Everything I'm used to, bash, cat, cd, ls, nvim, sed, grep, ..., simply don't exist. And I end up find it easier to code in the small text box of the site they provide than any of the slow, non-Vim mode, IDEs.

Firstly, I use linux for self hosting, and have a love-hate relationship for any other purpose. I've been trying to make the full transition since about 2009(?) and always end up back on the spyware-riddled Microswamp ad-delivery system.

I'm going to get downvoted for saying this, but if Linux could make hardware tasks as easy as Microsoft, namely printing, Windows would be a thing of the past.

I could put Mint on my 72 y.o.mom's computer and she probably wouldn't notice the difference until she had to do something dealing with hardware (connect a camera, or god forbid, print something). inb4 just use cups - My mom doesn't gasf about dependencies, chown, and chasing terminal errors for 6 hours to print an agenda for the ladies' church meeting and then have it break itself the next day. This is why it fails. Linux purists who don't care that people don't have time for CLI will disagree, and that is precisely what keeps things in the current state.