I agree, I gave up on Windows since the deployment target for .NET services (web, etc) are now fully Linux, at least in my case. Linux is a known OS and there's

I agree, I gave up on Windows since the deployment target for .NET services (web, etc) are now fully Linux, at least in my case. Linux is a known OS and there's thousands of experts. We can see under the covers and get a deep understanding. I highly recommend you install Linux on an older laptop and try it on your time off. As for package management, in terms of .NET its just nuget still, in terms of installing packages, there's UIs for them, but yeah you do need to sit down and read about it so you have some familiarity for when something goes wrong, which in the case of Ubuntu / Debian is only really the case if you're installing packages not maintained by them, Debian has insanely strict rules on what they consider stable, which means you get a slightly "dated" set of packages, but the confidence that your OS will not blow up out of the blue. What pushed me over the edge to Linux was Windows Defender sends files to Microsoft for analysis, but there's no audit trail for what those files are. It could be my PII for taxes, could be highly proprietary documents for my employer / company. I have no way to know what the heck their heuristics or whatever has seemingly found suspicious and uploaded.