Is my workhorse for personal business as well as fucking around with code occasionally.

Linux is so God-Blessett PRACTICAL. Once you get used to controlling your system (IE, the settings stuff to tweak behaviors such as what "Control Panel" does in Windows is completely different) - it is lean and mean to do practical, simple things that a desktop person would want.

One example is local search, which is so valuable for looking up crap. Windows will index your system but I always turn off indexing on Windows because it chews so much CPU and churns the hard drive incessantly. So anything like a document search by keyword on my Windows system is always dog slow. Whereas Linux has a utility called "recoll", a local search engine. Its indexing is utterly unnoticeable. So like, I was reading about the federal BOI report and how it had to be completed by the end of the year under penalty of law. I thought I filed it... I tend to save everything I do online as copies on my system. So I searched recoll for BOI... found the receipt page indicating all of the ownership information the feds wanted, and the date of was in October. I've had many other experiences looking for tax info and in those cases it finds the PDF of my tax returns with the information I need. CANNOT do that in Windows anywhere near as easily.

Another example is screen shots. The Windows way is somewhat intuitive but you have to know about the specific strange directory you never go to anyway to find the screen shot. Linux's screen shot saves the image in ~/Pictures, period. And has a handy option to upload the image to Imgur, so I can create an instant image for posting here without dicking around with an upload, etc.

The updates are completely user-controlled. Of course, my browsers and other stuff that relies on outside infrastructure would bit-rot as new revisions of standard Linux libraries roll out. But I can forestall updates as long as possible to not make changes to my system.

UPDATES ARE PAINLESS, EASY, and QUICK. Windows updates are like a crying baby you don't want to hold shitting its diaper all over your shirt as you try to calm it.

I get into Windows to run Quicken, Turbotax and Quickbooks. Period. I get out ASAP.

Everything about Windows is normie city. You browse the bottom bar showing the local weather and you get a huge popup of curated news such as celebrating another Donald Trump failure or Syria's fall. It's like "The View"+Rachel Maddow controls Windows even down to suggested news items.