Dimitris Poulopoulos
1 min readJun 14, 2020

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Well, it depends. First, I am talking from a developer's perspective. Thus, there is vendor lock-in if you are running iOS and use Xcode, for example. But this is not why I quit Apple. The worst part is that whenever you want to upgrade your Apple machine you have to pay a lot to buy the new version. On the other hand, you've got many more options living in the Windows world, where you decide how much you want to spend. An transfering your work between Windows and Linux is as easy as a git commit.

Second, it is what you prefer. I prefer having Microsoft manage the virtualization technology and not waste my time with VirtualBox or VMware. I just want to open a terminal and write code. That is a personal preference. Plus, there are many things that still do not work that flawlessly on Linux. For example, my Sony noise-cancelling headphones-that are essential for me to work-does not always work out-of -the-box on Ubuntu.

Last, yes it is 2020 but still, try to edit a document that is 200 pages long in Work online. You can do "most" of office work but you cannot do everything online.

And people please, some of us prefer working on Windows. That make us neither propagandists nor unreasonable.

Other than that, thanks for the time you took to read the article, and thank you for your comments. That's what drives us forward.

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Dimitris Poulopoulos
Dimitris Poulopoulos

Written by Dimitris Poulopoulos

Machine Learning Engineer. I talk about AI, MLOps, and Python programming. More about me: www.dimpo.me

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