> no viruses. No worms, trojans, or any other kind of malware<p>> Very little telemetry, if at all<p>Using Windows feels like being trapped in an elderly person's body. It is so crufty.<p>The UI lags so much. The UX feels worse than accidental, almost adversarial.<p>Logging in, there are several seconds between clicking something, the PIN menu appearing, and being allowed to type something. On Linux I just type. Why? No useless background processes, weather reports in the start menu, "NASDAQ is up", or pop-up advertisement like my system got a virus.<p>Pair programming yesterday with my colleague (who uses Windows) using a mixture of Windows and Linux, he witnessed how badly I manage to navigate Windows because the difference in latency trips me up.<p>Once you can type without looking at your keyboards, having a terminal as an integral part of your UI means you can make the system do things by thinking/speaking with your fingers, like having a dialogue with the computer. Windows is a mouse operating system. I know people from university who manage to retrofit Windows with a terminal system. I know PowerShell is really powerful (similar to UNIX shell). I've used Cygwin and PuTTY in the past, and I briefly tried WSL / WSL 2. It's totally doable. Not bashing those who make it work.<p>I just like minimal systems. They don't come faster than when they do only exactly what you want.