I also find Windows physically painful. With Nuget, third-party devs have started addressing the worst part of using Windows, which is package management, but

I also find Windows physically painful. With Nuget, third-party devs have started addressing the worst part of using Windows, which is package management, but it's still nothing like using apt or aptitude. Furthermore, I rarely have to put up with debugging strange Linux problems. I use Linux Mint with Mate and it just works 99.9% of the time. The technology behind Mate is the old Gnome 2 environment, so it's very battle-worn. I have to wonder what distro all the people complaining of strange Linux desktop bugs are using. Yeah, they happen, but are increasingly uncommon when using non-beta software (like Debian Wheezy or an Ubuntu or Ubuntu LTS release).