I too love coding on linux, and have been doing so exclusively since the 90s. But I must admit there's quite a hill to climb before you're sufficiently steeped

I too love coding on linux, and have been doing so exclusively since the 90s. But I must admit there's quite a hill to climb before you're sufficiently steeped in this environment to feel like it's a welcoming home. And it's not perfect, but nothing is. Just the other day I wanted to burn someone at the stake after wasting an hour rediscovering Debian broke /etc/vim/vimrc.local overrides of defaults.vim for users lacking a ~/.vimrc, while simultaneously making defaults.vim enable the absolute worst mouse settings anyone using vim for decades could ever be forced to use in an xterm. But that's also an indication of how exceptional it has become for my GNU/Linux boxes to not behave precisely as I want and expect at all times. One little thing like that and it feels like the world has been turned upside down. When you develop on and for a Libre OS like this long enough, it becomes part yours. I live in my own window manager, hacking mostly on my own projects, in an operating system running system code I've contributed to both professionally and personally. Whether that's a good or a bad thing, I'm really not sure. But it certainly facilitates a unique and strong relationship with the machine.