"it takes all of 30 minutes to just wipe your hard drive and install Ubuntu on your ThinkPad and you'd be much better off for it" is a VERY incomplete picture.
You're leaving out the part where you're spending countless hours figuring out how to make $TASK work on Linux (i.e. scan + OCR, photo editing, accounting, pivot tables in a spreadsheet, to name a few examples) with any number of WORKAROUNDS, rather than a it-works-out-of-the-box experience because software exists for Windows already, that works out of the box.
You might want to deal with getting those workarounds going, because you're a purist, or you're in your 20s, and have nothing but time on your hands.
I'm 45, have a family I want to spend time with. I don't have time for that shit anymore. I want things to work and stay out of my way.
macOS used to be that good. I don't feel like it is any more.
Windows 10 has been that good, here. I turn off the telemetry. I don't know where you've seen ads. I get no ads. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're leaving out the part where you're spending countless hours figuring out how to make $TASK work on Linux (i.e. scan + OCR, photo editing, accounting, pivot tables in a spreadsheet, to name a few examples) with any number of WORKAROUNDS, rather than a it-works-out-of-the-box experience because software exists for Windows already, that works out of the box.
You might want to deal with getting those workarounds going, because you're a purist, or you're in your 20s, and have nothing but time on your hands.
I'm 45, have a family I want to spend time with. I don't have time for that shit anymore. I want things to work and stay out of my way.
macOS used to be that good. I don't feel like it is any more.
Windows 10 has been that good, here. I turn off the telemetry. I don't know where you've seen ads. I get no ads. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯