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(Answering this with the context of personal, not work, because work is a Macbook and there's no option to choose) For me the only real reason is hardware comp
by godot 6y ago
(Answering this with the context of personal, not work, because work is a Macbook and there's no option to choose)
For me the only real reason is hardware compatibility. I've had a couple of laptops with some sort of Linux by now and there's always quirks that make me not able to rely on it as a daily driver. My current personal laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 720s, and I dual boot Win10 and Manjaro. In every Linux flavor I tried on this, it consistently crashes whenever I close the lid to put it to standby/suspend and reopen it. Additionally, it randomly freezes when I drive the cpu too hard. This really makes it such that I only boot into the Linux side when I want to do hobby dev work; and use the Windows side for regular household stuff (email, pay bills, etc.).
Admittedly maybe it's my fault that I don't buy a laptop with better Linux compatibility, like one that comes built-in with Linux such as the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition.