Win8 and that horrible touchscreen UI did it for me. All Linux since then. 10 years before that i had dual boot and used both, but that day I uninstalled Win from all my machines. Yes, upgrades drove me nuts too. Was really busy, always running, postponing updates, end they hit me when Im late home for lunch or right in the morning when the first meeting starts. Laptop was off in the meantime.
Used Mint Cinnamon for years and I must say tweaking was not an issue... Maybe few days after every new release. It became home. Recently moved to Arch / Xmonad to get rid of the mouse as much as possible. Working really well but yes, tweaking is back.
But its fun. Tweaking windows was a pain. Recently, after years not even looking at Win, i installed it on the gaming PC for my kid. It was instant frustration with bloatware, Office/Skype/MSAccount jumping out of every other click. Dont like the UI either. Especially the mix of stuff from Win95 and Win10 :) Anyway, Win became so foreign for me that actually I find it now way more difficult to configure and use than Linux.
Also, programming productivity, for me it was allways a bit better on Linux, but not by much. Its more about not being frustrated. But I also manage 3 to 4 completely non-techical user's laptops for my familly and workers (all on Linux Mint Cinnamon now) and the amount of time I saved on that task, compared to time they used Win, is huge!
Basically, I'm home. Don't see a chance to move back any time soon.
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Win8 and that horrible touchscreen UI did it for me. All Linux since then. 10 years before that i had dual boot and used both, but that day I uninstalled Win from all my machines. Yes, upgrades drove me nuts too. Was really busy, always running, postponing updates, end they hit me when Im late home for lunch or right in the morning when the first meeting starts. Laptop was off in the meantime.
Used Mint Cinnamon for years and I must say tweaking was not an issue... Maybe few days after every new release. It became home. Recently moved to Arch / Xmonad to get rid of the mouse as much as possible. Working really well but yes, tweaking is back.
But its fun. Tweaking windows was a pain. Recently, after years not even looking at Win, i installed it on the gaming PC for my kid. It was instant frustration with bloatware, Office/Skype/MSAccount jumping out of every other click. Dont like the UI either. Especially the mix of stuff from Win95 and Win10 :) Anyway, Win became so foreign for me that actually I find it now way more difficult to configure and use than Linux.
Also, programming productivity, for me it was allways a bit better on Linux, but not by much. Its more about not being frustrated. But I also manage 3 to 4 completely non-techical user's laptops for my familly and workers (all on Linux Mint Cinnamon now) and the amount of time I saved on that task, compared to time they used Win, is huge!
Basically, I'm home. Don't see a chance to move back any time soon.