Absolutely, the trade-off is a no-brainer to me. As a software engineer I would hate to be stuck on windows and see my productivity suffer. I think windows is

Absolutely, the trade-off is a no-brainer to me. As a software engineer I would hate to be stuck on windows and see my productivity suffer. I think windows is not inherently worse though, it is probably great for how some programmers work or think, but to me Linux distros feel like a better match