Totally. This is the virtue signaling of the workstation world. The mere fact that you’re running a computer with *nix, and you get to tell everyone about it,

Totally. This is the virtue signaling of the workstation world. The mere fact that you’re running a computer with *nix, and you get to tell everyone about it, outweighs the fact that 50% of your day is spent figuring out how to get common tasks working on it. Would love to read a piece akin to “I’ve been running Ubuntu on a ThinkPad for two years without issue” which is a standard the other main OSes have established