Linux is a living community and entity. Like any ecosystem, it is messy. But particularly this can be its greatest strength. It evolves.

If I do not like some component, I am free to write something better, publish it, and have it taken upstream.

Great example is pulseaudio and pipewire.

For instance, if MS decrees that my data is now to be harvested, or they will be running an AI service that will monitor me on that computer, the most right I have is to ask permission to refuse. Even an opt out option is something MS must implement into their product.

OTOH...

🧵Interesting POV. I will give powershell another try. But here is the thing

And maybe this comes from my past working on monolithic monsters from the past (AKA mainframes)

Windows is a product. The cohesion you like I see as a weakness. The powerful stakeholders can make terrible decisions.

Please, let me hear your case. I am interested and open to persuasion in either direction.

My current limited experience with Powershell hasn't been amazing, but nor has it been so terrible my dislike has become concrete.

I could probably be persuaded that Powershell was an intentional attempt to make a cli as frustrating and slow to use as a GUI 😂

I honestly immediately heard the word as Wil Wheaton would narrate it. Perfection.

Will it load? Yeah. But you are gonna have a bad time most likely. Zfs gets ram hungry pretty fast and that 4gb will not stretch far. Also it runs noticeably better under 80% used, due to the COW block allocation algorithm. Noting because a toy system is often small.

For work, I build to www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/re.... It has them broke out :)

For home use, yeah I usually break out the filesystems. Generally because of dealing with full / in the past. When a less critical bit goes ro, it can be a much easier fix.

I do not entirely grok why studies keep trying to compare an analog, evolving network of interacting nodes that is in constant flux, to a digital computer. It just seems like nit the best frame to consider our skull sugar furnaces.

Btw, analog computers are dope and can graph perfect curves.

Pop!_os is pretty good for ease of gaming.

Maybe. See, when a system is an unbootable mess, it's easier to justify a wipe and restore. Doing /etc does plenty of damage, but leaves the system in a state where you have to think about the next step, and trying to repair it isn't simply impractical.

In some ways that is worse 😆

What's your budget? If sky's the limit I would try a Herman Miller Embody or Aeron.

Going down the scale there is the Steelcase Gesture or the Ergohuman line of chairs.

I have used chairs from all three of those companies and can confirm they are comfy and durable.